Durant-Dort Carriage Company

Durant-Dort Carriage Company was a manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles in Flint, Michigan. Founded in 1886, by 1900 it was the largest carriage manufacturer in the country.

This very successful business made the partners rich men and it became the core on which William C. Durant and J. Dallas Dort began to build General Motors.

Durant sold out of this business in 1914 and it stopped manufacturing carriages in 1917. Durant-Dort Carriage Company was dissolved in 1924.[1]

The premises were taken over by J Dallas Dort's Dort Motor Car Company which he closed in 1924.

Water Street offices and showroom in 1977 before restoration
The Water Street factory leased by Durant and Dort in 1893
  1. ^ "Articles of Association, Genesee County". No. Record Group 81-50, Container V1-10. Lansing, Michigan. State of Michigan Archives. 1841–1935.