Wednesday 24th February 1909
A total of eight Detroit businessmen formed the Hudson Motor Car Company to produce an automobile which would sell for less than US$1,000. One of the chief “car men” and organiser of the company was Roy D. Chapin, Sr., a young executive who had worked with Ransom E. Olds. (Chapin’s son, Roy Jr., would later be president of Hudson-Nash descendant American Motors Corp. in the 1960s). The company quickly started production, with the first car driven out of a small factory in Detroit on July 3, 1909.
