American Express celebrates it's 100th anniversary in business travel with a look back at corporations that pioneered business travel

And it's cool that they brought up the Wingfoot Express from Ohio to Boston so soon after I posted about it. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/03/it-was-april-1917-and-goodyear-set-out.html

https://www.amexglobalbusinesstravel.com/100thanniversary/goodyear-packard/

https://www.amexglobalbusinesstravel.com/100thanniversary/all/


The stories include the tale of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, which was held in honor of the previous year’s opening of the Panama Canal; a 1916 meeting of American captains of industry, who converged on Washington to discuss preparing the economy for entry into World War I; and the experience of Swedish vacuum-cleaner magnate Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, who got the inspiration that would lead to his 1918 founding of Electrolux during a business trip to Vienna a decade earlier.


I learned about this via http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Corporate-Travel/American-Express-marks-centennial-with-retrospective