This Day in Auto History: 2.19.1886 William Starling Sullivan Rodgers of The Texas Company is born in Columbus, OH 2.19.1906 Longtime NASCAR official Johnny Bruner is born in Birmingham, AL 2.19.1928 Sir Malcolm Campbell, driving the Napier-Campbell V-12 “Blue Bird II”, raises the land speed record to 206.96 mph at Daytona Beach, FL 2.19.1941 Automotive valve manufacturer William W. Crawford dies in Miami Beach, FL at age 58 2.19.1957 Edward Ringwood Hewitt, namesake of the Hewitt made 1906-1907 in New York City, and the Adams-Hewitt made 1905-1914 in Bedford, England, dies in New York City at age 90

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