Monday, March 10, 2008

This Day in Auto History:

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly

3.10.1903
Byron J. Carter is issued a United States patent for his three-cylinder steam engine
3.10.1909
Andrew L. Freeman, the inventor of the headbolt heater, is born in Upham, ND
3.10.1939
Racer Charles Crichton-Stuart is born in London, England
3.10.1942
Walter M. Nones, founder in 1914 of the Norma-Hoffmann Bearings Corporation and its Chairman until 1941, dies in New York City at age 67
3.10.1960
The Gordon (later Gordon-Keeble) GT is introduced as a new marque at the Geneva (Switzerland) Autoshow

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

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