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Adam Opel
Adam Opel was a German industrialist who founded the company that bears his name. Trained as a locksmith, he began making sewing machines at Rüsselsheim in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1862 and later added bicycles. After his death his sons began building motor cars in 1899, and Opel became one of Germany's leading carmakers.
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