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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Edsel

notoriously unsuccessful make of car, introduced 1956 and named for Henry and Clara Ford's only child; figurative sense of "something useless and unwanted" is almost as old. Edsel is a family name, attested since 14c. (William de Egeshawe), from High Edser in Ewhurst, Surrey.

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Edsel

The Edsel is an automobile marque that was planned, developed, and manufactured by the Ford Motor Company for model years 1958-1960. With the Edsel, Ford had expected to make significant inroads into the market share of both General Motors and Chrysler and close the gap between itself and GM in the domestic American automotive market. Ford invested heavily in a yearlong teaser campaign leading consumers to believe that the Edsel was the car of the future – an expectation it failed to deliver. After it was unveiled to the public, it was considered to be unattractive, overpriced, and overhyped. The Edsel never gained popularity with contemporary American car buyers and sold poorly. The Ford Motor Company lost $250 million on the Edsel's development, manufacturing and marketing.

The very name "Edsel" became a popular symbol for a commercial failure.

Edsel (band)

Edsel was an indie rock/ post-hardcore band from Washington, DC. The band originally broke up in 1997, having released four full-length albums, numerous 7" singles and an EP.

The group reformed in October 2012 for two shows in New York City to celebrate the remastered reissue of their 1995 album, Techniques Of Speed Hypnosis. They have since been included in a Descendents covers compilation by Filter Magazine and will be playing at SXSW in Austin, TX in March.

The band was formed in 1988 by Sohrab Habibion (guitar and vocals, currently a member of Obits), Steve Ward (bass), and Nick Pellicciotto (drums). Over the years, the group's members would include Geoff Sanoff (bass, currently an independent sound engineer and producer), Steve Raskin (guitar, currently in the band/collectives Thunderball and Fort Knox Five), Eli Janney (keyboards), and John Dugan (drums, formerly of Chisel).

Edsel's first single, "My Manacles," was the first release on the DeSoto Records label.

The label Comedy Minus One reissued remastered digital editions of Edsel's "The Everlasting Belt Co." and "Detroit Folly" in September 2011 with "Techniques of Speed Hypnosis" following in October 2012.

Edsel (disambiguation)

The Edsel was an automobile manufactured by Ford Motor Company, named after Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford.

Edsel or Edsell may also refer to:

Edsel (given name)

Edsel is a masculine given name which may refer to:

  • Edsel Albert Ammons (1924-2010), American bishop of the United Methodist Church
  • Edsel Ford (1893-1943), president of Ford Motor Company and son of Henry Ford
  • Edsel Ford (poet) (1928–1970), American poet
  • Edsel Ford II (born 1948), Ford Motor Company executive and great-grandson of Henry Ford
  • Edsel Ford Fong (1927-1984), American restaurant server noted for his rudeness

Usage examples of "edsel".

Willie Walker in the front seat with a veteran triggerman named Bonelli and a younger wheelman who was called Tommy Edsel because of his one-time membership in a club of Edsel automobile enthusiasts.

Tommy Edsel fought the crazily spinning motion of the paired vehicles for another microsecond, and then the Mercedes was falling away, leaving the larger car to plunge on alone.

I took the Edsel Ford Freeway through neighborhoods like slick gray stone to Moross and parked in the St.

John Lodge toward the Edsel Ford, with buildings crowding in close on both sides and the sky only a narrow rectangle between the roofs.

I said, as we glided around the long looping drive that led back to Edsel Ford East.

It is enough to say that the shipping-port and its cargoes outbound interested him deeply just now, and that the friend he awaited was Yarol the Venusian, in that swift little Edsel ship the Maid that can flash from world to world with a derisive speed that laughs at Patrol boats and leaves pursuers floundering in the ether far behind.

Hitler backer and Edsel Ford continued the family tradition in 1942 by encouraging French Ford to profit from arming the German Wehrmacht, Subsequently, these Ford-produced vehicles were used against American soldiers as they landed in France in 1944.

American directors, including Edsel Ford, realized the political unhealthiness of I.

Henry Ford and son Edsel Ford have been in the forefront of American businessmen who try to walk both sides of every ideological fence in search of profit.

Simultaneously, in the United States Edsel Ford joined the board of American I.

Ford in Europe were passed to Edsel Ford by Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge Long.

If the Nazi industrialists brought to trial at Nuremburg were guilty of crimes against mankind, then so must be their fellow collaborators in the Ford family, Henry and Edsel Ford.

Farben at this time contained some of the most prestigious names among American industrialists: Edsel B.

These are almost gone now, I hear, the way of the Edsel, the klepsydra and the button hook, shot down and punctured by the safety pill, which makes for larger mammaries, too, so who complains?