In 1926 General Motors ( Australia ) was established with assembly plants at Newstead, Queensland ; Marrickville, New South Wales ; City Road, Melbourne, Victoria ; Birkenhead, South Australia ; and Cottesloe, Western Australia utilizing bodies produced by Holden Motor Body Builders and imported complete knock down ( CKD ) chassis.

In 1931 General Motors purchased Holden Motor Body Builders and merged it with General Motors ( Australia ) Pty Ltd to form General Motors-Holden's Ltd ( GM-H ).

During this period of time Farley was also busy merging five small building supply companies to form General Builders Corporation, which would become the city's largest building supply company.

General Builders supplied materials for the construction of the Empire State Building as well.

Farley was an appointed official and resigned his post from General Builders when he joined FDR's cabinet.

Farley's building supply firm, the General Builders Supply Corporation, had received a federal contract under the Hoover Administration to provide building materials for the construction of the Post Office Annex.

The General Builders Corporation supplied building materials toward the construction of such landmarks as the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and the United Nations Headquarters.

* Mukherji, Visvapriya, Jagadish Chandra Bose, second edition, 1994, Builders of Modern India series, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, ISBN 81-230-0047-2.

* John H. White, Jr., Once the Greatest of Builders: The Norris Locomotive Works, Bulletin 150 ( Westford, MA: Railway & Locomotive Hist.

Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF General Dynamics F-111 | F-111 performing a Fuel dumping # Dump-and-burn | dump-and-burn Fuel dumping | fuel dump at the Australian International Airshow

This system was used successfully in two military projects: field test systems used to check the electronics of the Air Force General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark fighter plane and systems used to control the countdown and launch of the Army's Pershing missile.

* In 2004, General Dynamics completed a study for NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts.

In 1992, General Dynamics announced the sale of Cessna to Textron Inc.

* General Dynamics, defence contractor

* prime contractor: Spectrum Astro, later acquired by General Dynamics

General Dynamics of the United States became its licensee, and the Pentagon awarded its first R & D naval research project in the field of supercavitation.

The Deep Star III built by General Dynamics and an unnamed two-man submersible built by Westinghouse were scheduled to sail but never did.

* Builder: Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, PA ; General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, MA

The 2nd Lieutenant John P. Bobo Class ships are new construction ships delivered to MSC in the mid-1980s from General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, Mass.

* National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, a shipyard in San Diego, CA owned by General Dynamics

The Guidance System for the missile was developed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and is maintained by a joint Draper / General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems facility.

The fire control system was designed and continues to be maintained by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.

The Electric Boat Company eventually became General Dynamics Corporation in 1952.

The General Dynamics Electric Boat ( GDEB ) is a division of General Dynamics Corporation.

The firm renamed itself General Dynamics Corporation in 1952, and when Convair was acquired the next year, the holding company assumed the " General Dynamics " name, with the submarine building operation retaining the " Electric Boat " name.

* The Defender: The Story of General Dynamics, by Roger Franklin.

* Brotherhood of Arms: General Dynamics and The Business of Defending America, by Jacob Goodwin.

Massachusetts Solicitor General Samuel Quincy and private attorney Robert Treat Paine, hired by the town of Boston, handled the prosecution.

* Richard Rush ( 1780-1859 ), United States Attorney General under James Madison and Secretary of the Treasury under John Quincy Adams

In February 1864, Major General Quincy A. Gillmore, commander of the Union's Department of the South at Hilton Head, South Carolina, ordered an expedition into Florida to secure Union enclaves, sever Confederate supply routes ( especially for beef and salt ), and recruit black soldiers.

* General Pershing Zephyr, the ninth of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Zephyr streamliners

In 1840, U. S. Army General Zachary Taylor sends out Lieutenant Tufts and scout Monk to a remote Florida island home where the reclusive Captain Quincy Watts lives with a 5-year-old son.

The earliest forefather of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Aurora Branch Railroad, was chartered by act of the Illinois General Assembly on October 2, 1848.

Richard Rush ( August 29, 1780 – July 30, 1859 ) was United States Attorney General under James Madison and United States Secretary of the Treasury under John Quincy Adams as well as John Quincy Adams ' running mate when he ran for re-election on the National Republican ticket in 1828.

In 1816 he was appointed a district attorney, and in 1817 President James Monroe named him the ninth Attorney General of the United States, a position he held for 12 years, through the administration of John Quincy Adams, until 1829.

* Josiah Quincy ( 1859 – 1919 ), General Court representative, assistant secretary of the Navy, mayor of Boston ( 1895 – 1899 ), son of Josiah Phillips Quincy

The EMD E5 was a, A1A-A1A passenger train-hauling diesel locomotive manufactured by Electro-Motive Corporation, and its corporate successor, General Motors ' Electro-Motive Division ( EMD ) of La Grange, Illinois, and produced exclusively for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (“ The Burlington Route ”), and its subsidiaries, during 1940 and 1941.

John Quincy Adams won the disputed 1824 election over General Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, then considered to be part of the Southwest.

Runkle's men broke the enemy line at the Battle of Dutton's Hill in Somerset, Kentucky on March 30, 1863 and he was thanked for his gallantry on the field by Quincy Gillmore, the commanding General, who gave Colonel Runkle's command entire credit for the victory.

* April 30 – The first passenger train to be equipped with fluorescent lighting throughout, the General Pershing Zephyr of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, is placed in scheduled service between St. Louis and Kansas City.

* The General Pershing Zephyr debuts on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri.

One of the most famous Parrott rifles is the Swamp Angel, an gun used by federal Brigadier General Quincy Adams Gillmore to bombard Charleston, South Carolina.

The Quincy yard was sold to General Dynamics Corporation in the mid 1960s, and closed in 1986.

* Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts ( 1913 – 1964 ) Sold to General Dynamics Corporation in 1964.