General Motors Company (GM) was founded in Flint, Michigan as a holding 
company for Buick, controlled then by William C. Durant who was a leading
manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles. GM’s co-founder was Charles S. 
Mott, whose carriage company was merged into Buick prior to GM’s 
creation.

William C. Durant

Charles S. Mott

This 1908 Cadillac was produced the year GM was formed.

Car number ten million for General Motors, a 1929 Buick sedan