Owen Galloway.
North American Motors is the largest company in the Confederation of North America, and the second-largest in the world after Kramer Associates. The company was founded in 1921 when Galloway Locomobile President Owen Galloway bought out seven other locomobile companies and combined them with his own to create the largest locomobile company in the C.N.A. Galloway also formed a petroleum affiliate called North American Fuel that was soon competing with K.A. and other firms to locate and develop new petroleum deposits throughout the world. Other affiliates founded by Galloway were North American Inns, which became the largest hotel chain in the C.N.A., and North American Finance, which was the second largest financial company in the country.
Galloway's engineers created an improved version of the vulcazine engine for the Galloway Dickinson in 1922. Within three years, the new locomobile had become the most popular in the world.
Galloway remained president of N.A.M. until his death in 1948. Five years later, former Governor-General James Billington was chosen as the company's president.
Sobel's source for North American Motors is Ezra Ripley's A History of North American Motors: The Early Years (New York, 1945).