Walter
Marr
and
Thomas
Buick
Buick’s chief engineer, Walter
L.
Marr (left), and
Thomas
D.
Buick,
son
of founder David Dunbar Buick,
drove the first
Flint
Buick in a successful Flint-Detroit
round trip
in
July
1904.
David Buick was building gasoline engines by
1899,
and Man, his engineer, apparently built the first auto to
be called a Buick in
1900.
However, Buick traditionally
dates its beginnings
to
1903.
That was the year the
company was reorganized, refinanced and moved from
Detroit to Flint. Buick has always been a product
innovator. Buick engineers developed the
William
C.
(Billy)
Durant
