Mausoleum of Mr. Charles S. Mott. After Mott left the Navy he decided to work as an engineer. Much as the Wright Brothers turned their bicycle shop into an aeronautic laboratory, Mott turned a bicycle wheel making company into the manufacturer of a product for a new invention. The Weston-Mott Company of Utica, New York began making complete automobile wheel and axle assemblies for the newly emerging automobile industry. Flint's Buick Automobile Company convinced Mr. Mott to move his operation from New York to Michigan in 1906. When General Motors was formed in 1913 the Weston-Mott Company was absorbed and Mott served as a member of GM's Board of Directors for sixty years, from 1913 to 1973. His business, Weston-Mott, was an important component of General Motors and gave Mr. Mott a place in the industrial revolution that changed America forever.