Monday, August 27, 2007

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

8.26.1905
The Smith Automobile Company, a Kansas corporation, reorganizes as a Missouri corporation
8.26.1925
Racer Bobby Ball is born in Phoenix, AZ
8.26.1929
The first Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental is completed
8.26.1935
John North Willys dies in Riverdale, NY at age 61
8.26.1943
George W. Christ, develop of steel-backed bearings and a design engineer with E-M-F and Studebaker, dies at age 59

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

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