Friday, October 5, 2007

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

10.5.1899
Marcus Wallenberg of Saab-Scania AB is born in Stockholm, Sweden
10.5.1919
Enzo Ferrari makes his racing debut, finishing 11th in the Parma-Poggio di Berceto hillclimb in his C.M.N.
10.5.1931
Hans Graf von der Goltz of BMW is born in Bad Marienberg, Germany
10.5.1944
Dr. Carl Claus, a German-born authority on powder metallurgy and Vice President of the Bound Brook Oil-Less Bearing Company, dies at age 60
10.5.1950
Fred J. Schaefer of Franklin, Chevrolet, and Ford dies in Detroit, MI at age 53

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

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