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Connersville Automotive History: McFarlan Motor Corporation

Feb 10, 2010

In our next installment in this series regarding Connersville’s automotive history, we will look back on McFarlan Motor Corporation. Please take a moment to reflect back on our first three segments here: "Cord Corporation":http://www.carbonmotors.com/blog/70/Connersville-Automotive-History-Cord-Corporation "Lexington Motor Company":http://www.carbonmotors.com/blog/...

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Should I Write a Book?

Jan 31, 2010

This month is my 7 year anniversary of working day and night with my team to make the world’s first purpose-built law enforcement patrol vehicle a reality for our brave women and men in uniform all across this country – and to create thousands of new American jobs in the process. Many have told me formally or informally that I need to write a book about the journey. I...

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Connersville Automotive History: Cord Corporation

Jan 21, 2010

Continuing the exploration Connersville's past life, today we're going to discuss the Cord Corporation. If you need to catch up, you can "read part one about Auburn Motor Company here":http://www.carbonmotors.com/blog/67/Connersvilles-Automotive-History-Auburn-Motor-Company and "part two covering Lexington Motor Company here.":http://www.carbonmotors.com/blog/69/Conner...

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Connersville Automotive History: Lexington Motor Company

Jan 14, 2010

This is the second blog in our series discussing the rich automotive past of Connersville, Indiana - an historical foundation upon which Carbon Motors intends to build the campus where the world's first purpose-built law enforcement patrol vehicle will be built. In our first edition, we discussed Auburn Motor Company. If you missed it when we originally posted it, "...

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Shifting into High Gear

Jan 13, 2010

The letter arrived from the Department of Energy in a very non-descript, FedEx envelope. Carbon’s application for the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program was deemed “substantially complete,” bringing the hopes and dreams of 10,000 people in desperate need of jobs that much closer to reality. As staggering as they are, sometimes numbers just aren...

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