While Chrysler would never be the Ford Motor Company or General Motors, both man and company were to occupy a prime position in American motor history.

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His family said Mr Friend, who worked at Reigate Motor Company, loved bikes and was a "hardworking family man".

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It was the Victorian railway industry that was most keen on the laws requiring a man to walk with a red flag in front of newfangled motor cars.

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This offer, hitherto unreported, was surprising coming from the man whose family controls 40% of the voting stock of Ford Motor and who had been chief executive only since October 2001.

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An old man was effortlessly cycling past me, laughing and pointing to the electric motor attached to his bike.

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"People who are getting fed up with Michael Schumacher ought to realise that the man is a living genius, the like of which has been seldom seen in the history of motor racing, " he said.

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