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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 600580, member: 33&quot;]Here&#039;s what Wikipedia says about the band&#039;s name:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;They named the band REO Speedwagon, from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speed_Wagon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speed_Wagon" rel="nofollow">REO Speed Wagon</a>, a 1915 truck that was designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_E._Olds" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_E._Olds" rel="nofollow">Ransom Eli Olds</a>. Doughty had seen the name written across the blackboard when he walked into his History of Transportation class on the very first day they had decided to look for a name. Rather than pronouncing REO as a single word as the motor company did, they chose to spell out the name with the individual letters each pronounced (&quot;R-E-O&quot;). &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speedwagon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speedwagon" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speedwagon</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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