General Motors stock certificate - modern design, common colors

Pre-bankruptcy issue! Nice vignette of modern vehicle interpretations (car, truck, and train) with factory and male profiles in the background.  This listing is for the rare colors of this issue - dark orange, purple, dark red, olive, dark blue, and light red (see pictures). Pieces date in the 1970's and 1980's (dealer's choice).  These are uncommon pieces that can complete your collection. Check out our common colors too!

The company was founded on September 16, 1908, in Flint, Michigan, as a holding company for McLaughlin Car Company of Canada Limited and Buick, then controlled by William C. Durant.  GM's co-founder was Charles Stewart Mott, whose carriage company was merged into Buick prior to GM's creation. Over the years Mott became the largest single stockholder in GM. GM acquired Oldsmobile later that year. In 1909, Durant brought in Cadillac, Elmore, Oakland and several others. Also in 1909, GM acquired the Reliance Motor Truck Company and the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company, the predecessors of GMC Truck. Durant lost control of GM in 1910 along with R. S. McLaughlin to a bankers' trust, because of the large amount of debt taken on in its acquisitions coupled with a collapse in new vehicle sales.

The next year, Durant started the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911 in the U.S. in Canada in 1915 and through this he secretly purchased a controlling interest in GM. Durant took back control of the company after one of the most dramatic proxy wars in American business history. Durant then reorganized General Motors Company into General Motors Corporation in 1916 Merging General Motors of Canada Limited as an ally in 1918. Shortly after, he again lost control, this time for good, after the new vehicle market collapsed. Alfred P. Sloan was picked to take charge of the corporation and led it to its post-war global dominance.This unprecedented growth of GM would last into the early 1980s when it employed 349,000 workers and operated 150 assembly plants.