Tuesday, March 18, 2008

This Day in Auto History:

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly

3.18.1881
Rudolph Carl Norberg of the Willard Storage Battery Company is born in Stockholm, Sweden
3.18.1917
The steamer “Vigilancia” with 84 FWD trucks on board is torpedoed by a German U-boat leading to United States entry into World War I
3.18.1929
General Motors announces plans to acquire Adam Opel AG of Germany
3.18.1937
Racer Mark N. Donohue Jr. is born in Summit, NJ
3.18.1953
The Chrysler Imperial Newport hardtop coupe is introduced as a mid-year model

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

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