Ransom Eli Olds is the only man in the U. S. who has two automobiles named after him. As early as 1887 he made in his family’s machine shop a steamer which he tested on the streets of Lansing, Mich.

LANSING — An early mass-produced Oldsmobile that Ransom Eli Olds donated to Michigan State University in 1948 now has been gifted to the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, officials announced this week, ...