Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

10.2.1912
Semon Emil “Bunkie” Knudsen of General Motors and the Ford Motor Company is born in Buffalo, NY
10.2.1921
Racer Giorgio Scarlatti is born in Rome, Italy
10.2.1930
Construction begins on the new Ford-Werke AG factory in Cologne, Germany
10.2.1935
The Rolls-Royce Phantom III, featuring a V-12 engine, is announced
10.2.1947
The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) splits the Grand Prix competitions into Formula 1 and Formula 2

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

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