Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

10.3.1896
The Paris-Marseille-Paris race ends during its tenth day with M. Mayade winning in his Panhard et Levassor
10.3.1928
The Ford Motor Company announces its entry into the bus business
10.3.1937
Harry R. McMahon, founder in 1914 and President 1914-1936 of the Standard Steel Spring Company, dies in Coraopolis Heights, PA at age 64
10.3.1945
The first post-World War II Chevrolet automobile is produced
10.3.1955
William F. Pioch Sr., a manufacturing engineering consultant to the Ford Motor Company and an employee of the firm since 1912, dies

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

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