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Welcome back to part two on this episode on Megacorps,

the massive companies that ruled the world.

Music the world.

Okay, right, I'm going to take you back.

Back on the first of May 1954, American consumers walked to the news that what was then the largest corporation merger in the country's history had just taken place

with the Nash Calvinator Corporation based in Detroit, Michigan, fusing with another Detroit outfit, the Hudson Motor Car Company,

to create a new outfit in Motown aiming to take on the Big Three, which were General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.

What I find interesting is that was the biggest corporation merger in the history of the US.

And I've never heard of Nash Kelvinator.

Nash Kelvinator.

Or the Hudson Motor Car Company.

I would assume Nash Calvinator was a person.

That's what if you...

I would not suggest it. I would not believe... I would assume it was a car brand. Yeah, kind of no-nonsense sort of guy, like on Saturday night, early evening telly, like in the 80s. Nash Calvinator will not take no for an answer. I'm imagining like a WWF wrestler from the sort of early 90s around the time of sort of macho man, Randy Savage, all that sort of Nash Calvinator. It's a great name, Nash Kelvinator. Incidentally, in America City, I've always been fascinated by Detroit, and I would like to visit there. Yes, I just find it. It had such a history, it's industry there, and also the fact has changed so much as that industry has fallen away now. And the music. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. I would love to go there. Now, the resulting business took the name American Motors Corporation, which is a very, does what it says on a tin name for a company, isn't it? That really screams people going, this is a holding name, and We obviously will change it by the time we get to production.

We'll think of a better one. Yeah, of course. I'm going to put it on the board. I'm going to put it on the board. But we all know, you can rub it off. It's fine. It's just there. So we've got something. No such thing is a bad idea. but let's not, you know, it's very uninspiring and empty page.

Let's put on American Motors Corporation. Mr. Singh is a bad idea, but let's not, you know, it's very uninspiring an empty page.

Let's put on American Motors Corporation and then we'll move, yeah, we'll move on from there.

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