Everything about E L Cord totally explained
Errett Lobban "E. L." Cord (
20 July 1894 -
2 January 1974) was a leader in
United States transport during the early and middle
20th century.
Cord founded the
Cord Corporation in 1929 as a holding company for over 150 companies he controlled, mostly in the field of transportation. The corporation controlled the Auburn Automobile Company, which built the
Auburn Automobile and the
Cord Automobile;
Lycoming Engines;
Duesenberg Inc.;
New York Shipbuilding;
Checker Cab;
Stinson Aircraft Company; and American Airways (later
American Airlines), amongst other holdings.
Born in
Warrensburg, Missouri, Cord had been a race car driver, mechanic and car salesman before he was offered the opportunity to manage the dying Auburn Automobile Company in 1924. By 1928 he controlled Auburn, which by 1931 was the 13th largest seller of autos in the United States. In
1937 he sold the Cord Corporation to the
Aviation Corporation and retired to
Los Angeles to earn even more millions in real estate. Cord owned several of the first
radio and
television stations in
California and later
Nevada, where he moved in the 1940s. In the
call letters of his Los Angeles radio station,
KFAC, the A.C. stands for Auburn Cord.
During the 1940s he filled in for a Nevada state legislator who died in the middle of his term and again rose to fame as a politician in his later life. In 1958 he was asked to run for
governor of Nevada, but he refused and never explained why. He died in
Reno, Nevada from
cancer in 1974, aged 79.
An excellent collection of his autos of interest is in
Auburn, Indiana (1600 S. Wayne St) at the
Auburn *Cord* Duesenberg Museum.
Trivia
E. L. Cord served as the inspiration for
Gram Parsons' song,
The New Soft Shoe.
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