Editing EMC EA/EB (section)

== Styling ==
The EA/EB and E1 featured largely identical and innovative styling showing the influence of the Electro-Motive Corporation's new buyer [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]. While mechanically they had much in common with previous, experimental EMC locomotives, GM understood the importance of looking new and exciting, not primerely being technically innovative. This basic "slant nose" style was continued in the subsequent E3, E4, E5 and E6 models, while a more "bulldog nose" style was tried in the E2 and a style somewhere in between was used for the [[EMD E7|E7]], [[EMD E8|E8]] and [[EMD E9|E9]], as well as the [[EMD F-unit|EMD F-Units]].

Its initial design was protected under US Patent D106,918.<ref>{{US patent reference
 |number = D106918
 |y = 1937
 |m = 11
 |d = 09
 |title = Design for a Locomotive Body
 |inventor = [[Harold L. Hamilton]], [[Richard M. Dilworth]], [[Martin P Blomberg]], [[Leland A. Knickerbocker]], and [[Chris J. Klein]]
}}</ref>