30.關於通用汽車公司名字之起源的這一說法，在比利·杜蘭特自己的手稿中得到了印證。城市流行著汽車業的許多傳說，其中有一個講的是杜蘭特本人在與本傑明·布裏斯科談判的時候想到用這個名字的。
31.Pound，The Turning Wheel，P.118.
32.Durant，“True Story of General Motors，”P.16.
[第8章]
1.William C.Durant，“The Cadillac，”manuscript in Durant Collection，Scharchburg Archives，Kettering University.
2.Arthur Pound，The Turning Wheel(New York：Doubleday，Doran&Company，1934)，P.121.
3.William C.Durant，“The True Story of General Motors，”pp.13一15，unfinished manuscript，Durant Collection，Scharchburg Archives，Kettering Uni—versity.
4.Alfred P.Sloan，Jr.，with Boyden Sparkes，Adventures of a White Collar Man(New York：Doubleday，DoranCompany，1941)，pp.83—85.
5.Pound，The Turning Wheel，P.107.
6.Ed Cray，Chrome Colossus(New York：McGraw—Hill，1980)，P.81.
7.Durant，“The Cadillac，”P.22.
8.William C.Durant，“The Ford Motor Company Incident。’’unpublished manuscript，Durant Collection，Scharchburg Archives，Kettering University.
9.Ibid.
10.George S.May，A Most Unique Machine(Grand Rapids，MI：W.E.Eerdmans，1975)，P.327.
1 1.Durant.“Ford Motor Company Incident.”
12.Ibid.
13.Ibid.
14.William C.Durant，”The A.C.Spark Plug，”Durant Collection，Scharchburg Archives，Kettering University.
15.Ibid.
16.Ibid
17.Motor World as quoted in Bernard A.Weisberger.The Dream Maker(Boston：Little，Brown，1979)，P.143.
18.Weisberger，The Dream Maker，PP.140—142.
19.Pound，The Turning Wheel，P.95.
[第9章]
1.Arthur Pound，The Turning Wheel(New York：Doubleday，Doran&Comp~my，1934)，P.126.
2.Ibid，P.126.
3.William C.Durant，”The Chevrolet，”manuscript in the Durant Collec—tion，Seharchburg Archives，Kettering University.
4.Margery Durant，Father(New York：Knickerbocker Press，1929)，PP.121—122.
5.Durant，My Father，PP.126—133.
6.Alfred P.Sloan Jr.，with Boyden Sparkes，Adventures of a White Collar Man(New York：Doubleday，Doran&Company，1941)，pp.83—85.