Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

11.21.1903
John Wallace Raisbeck of American Motors is born in Coronel, Chile
11.21.1919
The Fox Motor Company is organized in Philadelphia, PA by Ansley H. Fox, inventor of the Fox shotgun
11.21.1937
Howard E. Coffin, Vice President and Chief Engineer of the Hudson Motor Car Company 1909-1930, is killed at age 64 by an accidental gunshot wound in Sea Island Beach, GA
11.21.1951
Racer Carlos Panini is killed near Oaxaca, Mexico during the Pan-American Road Race
11.21.1962
Irving R. Bacon, an artist who was the “court painter” for Henry Ford, dies in El Cajon, CA at age 86

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

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