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The Executives.(NEWS)
Father: Edward N. Cole
Son: David E. Cole
THERE ARE DESIGN EXECUtives, engineering executives and auto-company executives and father-son combinations in all categories. Yet few men have been as successful as both an engineer and an executive as Edward N. Cole and few duos as well known as Ed and his son.
Ed Cole was the son of a dairy farmer. By the end of World War II, he was chief engineer at Cadillac, where he developed the first postwar short-stroke, high-compression V8. In 1952, he became chief engineer at Chevrolet, and in 1955, he released the landmark Chevy small-block V8. Its success lifted Cole to general manager of Chevrolet and GM vice president in 1956.
Cole oversaw two redesigns of the Corvette and kept Chev-rolet in front in the muscle-car showdowns of the "60s. He was named GM president in "67 and remained hands-on. In 1970, he began weaning GM cars from leaded gasoline and oversaw development of the catalytic converter by the time he retired in 1974. He died that spring, when the twin-engine aircraft he was piloting crashed in a storm.
David E. Cole also trained as an engineer, right up to his doctorate. After earning his PhD, Dave took a faculty position at the University of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The Executives.(NEWS)