Wednesday, February 27, 2008

This Day in Auto History:

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly

2.27.1879
E. R. Thomas married Flora Lozier, sister of Henry A. Lozier, a Toledo, OH bicycle manufacturer who would later produce the Lozier car
2.27.1918
The Fruehauf Trailer Company is incorporated in Michigan
2.27.1933
Electric automobile advocate Joseph John DiCerto is born in New York City
2.27.1946
George W. Mason, President of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, is elected President of the Automobile Manufacturers Association to succeed Alvan Macauley, Chairman of the Packard Motor Car Company, who resigned after a 18-year tenure
2.27.1960
Racer Dennis Setzer is born in Newton, NC

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


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