Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

1.22.1901
The Irish Automobile Club (later the Royal Irish Automobile Club)is founded in Dublin
1.22.1931
Montague Stanley Napier dies
1.22.1954
"General Motors demonstrates the XP21 Firebird, the world's firstgas-turbine automobile, in New York City"
1.22.1962
Edward W. Isom of the Sinclair Refining Company dies at age 76
1.22.1986
General Motors acquires a 59.7% ownership of Group Lotus PLC

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

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