Friday, May 16, 2008

This Day in Auto History:

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly

5.16.1907
The Ardsley Motor Car Company of Yonkers, NY is officially dissolved
5.16.1928
Edward Macauley, son of corporation President Alvan Macauley, joins the Packard Motor Car Company
5.16.1946
Charles F. Carroll, the inventor of many improvements in automobile design, dies in Cleveland, OH at age 69
5.16.1956
John J. Caton, founder of the Chrysler Institute of Engineering, dies in Phillipsburg, NJ at age 76

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

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