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The Opel motor car company
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autos manufactured under the name of the
Opel motor car company. An online guide for auto
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Founding of the Opel motor car company
The Opel car company was founded on the 21st
January 1863 by Adam Opel, in a cowshed in Russelsheim,
Hesse, Germany.
History of Opel motor car company
The following
company information and history timeline details
the dates of major events which influenced the
growth of the business.
1863: Company
founded by Adam Opel, producing sewing machines
1886: Began producing and selling high wheel
bicycles known as Peny
Farthings
1888: Production moved from a cowshed to a
big premises in Russelsheim
1895: Adam Opel was the leader in both sewing machines and high wheel bicycles at
the time of his death
1899: After Adam Opel's death, his sons entered
into a partnership with Friedrich Lutzmann, a
locksmith based in the court in Dessau in
Saxony-Anhalt, he had been working on designs
for an automobile for some time
1901: Partner ship with Friedrich Lutzmann was
dissolved due to his cars being un-successful,
after this, the Opel sons signed a licensing
agreement with French Automobiles, Darracq S.A.
They would produce a brand of Opel-Darracq's
1902: Opel showed their first car designs at the
Hamburg Motor Show
1906: Opel start manufacturing their own
automobiles
1907: Opel discontinue Opel-Darracq production
1911: Opel's factory was pretty much destroyed
by fire, so a new one was built with up to date
machinery, the same year, sewing machine
production stopped
1913: Opel became Germans largest car maker
1924: Installed Germany's first car production
line
1929: General Motors impressed with Opel's
modern facilities, buys 80% of the company
1931: General Motors buys 100% of the company
and
builds a second factory in Brandenburg
1937: Bicycle production ends
1940: Company seized by the Nazi regime
following the out break of World War 2 and car
production ceased
1947: Passenger car production resumed
1948: GM regained control over Opel
1950: Factory in Russelsheim rebuilt
1958: Opel's sold in the USA with their own name
1962: Opel's 100th year anniversary, a new
factory opened in Bochum
1972: Opel is again, Germany's biggest car
producer
1975: Opel's sold in the USA were sold through
Buick dealers as captive imports
1982: New factory built in Figueruelas,
Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
2009: Opel's future was thrown into uncertainty
as the global financial crisis drove
GM towards
bankruptcy
2009: September 10th: Majority stake of 55% was
to be bought by Magna, a Canadian automobile
parts manufacturer and Sberbank, a Russian bank
2009: November 3rd:
GM board calls of the Magna
deal, after concluding Opel was crucial to
GM's
global strategy
What models and types of cars and automobiles
does the Opel motor car company produce?
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produced by the company include those detailed
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