This Day in Auto History: 04 JUNE

This Day in Auto History: 6.4.1899 Franklin Hall Marmon, son of Walter C. Marmon, is born in Indianapolis, IN 6.4.1923 The design for the new Chrysler by Oliver H. Clark is approved by the Maxwell-Chalmers Board of Directors 6.4.1940 The 7,000,000th Ford V-8 is produced 6.4.1948 The Ford Motor Company sells the Johansson Gage Division to the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, RI – William Clay Ford is elected to the Board of Directors 6.4.1959 The American Honda Motor Company is established in Los Angeles, CA, initially to develop a market for Honda motorcycles

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