Edward Gowan Budd ( 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...1870 - 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...1946) was an American steel engineer who greatly advanced the manufacturing and quality of railroad cars and automobiles.

Budd was born in Delaware in 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...1870. He studied engineering in Philadelphia in 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...1888. In 1899, he transfered his knowledge of pressed steel to the railroad industry. Notably, with Pullman is the name of some places in the United States of America: Pullman, Michigan Pullman, Washington Pullman, Chicago Pullman, Illinois was a former place, now within the city limits of Chicago, a former company town of the Pullman Company, where a famous strike took place in 1894. ...Pullman, Budd created lighter, stronger and safer steel bodied railroad cars to replace the wood-bodied versions.

In 1912, Budd started his own company to look for other uses for pressed-steel technology. He sold some examples of all-steel bodies to GM redirects here. ...General Motors, Studebakers Lazy S logo designed by Raymond Loewy was used from the 1950s until 1966 Studebaker was a United States wagon and automobile manufacturer that was incorporated on February 16, 1852. ...Studebaker, Willys (pronounced will-eeze) was the brand name used by the United States automobile company Willys-Overland Motors, best known for its production of military and civilian Jeeps. ...Willys, The Oakland Motor Car Company was a United States based automobile manufacturer from 1907 to 1932. ...Oakland and Tatra mountains - a mountain range, part of the Carpathian Mountains, between Poland and Slovakia. ...Tatra. His first big supporter were the Alternate use: Dodge (disambiguation) Categories: Automobile stubs | Corporation stubs | Automobiles | Car companies of the United States | Chrysler | Corporations sponsoring NASCAR drivers ...Dodge brothers, who purchased 70,000 bodies in 1916.

However, Dodge placed the steel bodies onto conventional chassis frames. Budd envisioned pushing his technology even further. In 1924, He found another visionary in André Citroën - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...André Citroën. By 1934, they had developed the Citroèn Onze Légère, the first unibody, pressed steel automobile.

In order to hold all of this steel together, Budd also pioneered the use of Manual Metal Arc welding, also known as stick or MMA welding is one of the most common forms of welding. ...arc welding in automobile manufacturing.

Budd is today listed in the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, MI.

References

• Steel in our lives - article including information on Budd (http://www.made-of-steel.com/pdf_en/depliant_quotidien_en.pdf&e=9833) Retrieved January 19, 2005

• Setright, L J K (2003). Drive On! London: Granta Books ISBN 1-86207-698-7