This Day in Auo History: 18 MAY

This Day in Auto History: 5.18.1891 Carl Barker, longtime executive with the Shell Oil Company, is born in Selma, AL 5.18.1915 Cannon Ball Baker, driving a Stutz Bearcat, arrives in New York City 11 days, 7 hours and 15 minutes after leaving San Diego, CA, breaking all existing cross-country records 5.18.1931 Racer Bruce Halford is born in Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England 5.18.1951 Pierce A Weyl, a design engineer with the Ford Motor Company since 1927, dies 5.18.1972 Racer Jim Malloy dies at age 36 from injuries suffered four days earlier during a practice run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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