Thursday, July 12, 2007

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

7.12.1895
Inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller is born in Milton, MA
7.12.1909
The sixth Glidden Tour begins in Detroit, MI with a planned route to Kansas City, MO
7.12.1923
Jacques Lombard of Citroen is born in Auxerre, France
7.12.1930
Racer Guy Ligier is born in Vichy, France
7.12.1951
Hon. Nicholas Geoffrey Rootes, heir to the Rootes automotive empire, is born

Source: Automobile History Day By Day, by Douglas A. Wick

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