Oakland Motor Car Company [SEP] manufacturer
Oakland Motor Car Company
The Oakland Motor Car Company of Pontiac, Michigan, was an American automobile manufacturer and division of General Motors. Purchased by General Motors in 1909, the company continued to produce modestly priced automobiles until 1931 when the brand was dropped in favor of the division's Pontiac make.
Beginning.
The company was named for Oakland County, Michigan, in which it was based. As originally conceived and introduced, the first Oakland used a vertical two-cylinder engine that rotated counterclockwise. This design by
a defunct post-Civil War fort at the site of present-day Tonkawa, Oklahoma
- Oakland Motor Car Company, an American car manufacturer later renamed to Pontiac
- "Telegraph Ave. ("Oakland" by Lloyd)", a 2013 song by Childish Gambino from the album "Because the Internet"
- USS "Oakland" (CL-95), a warship of the U.S. Navy
See also.
- Oakland Cemetery (disambiguation)
- Oakland Historic District (disambiguation)
- Oakland Plantation