Friday, February 22, 2008

This Day in Auto History:

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly

2.22.1914
Clinton Firestone of Firestone-Columbus dies
2.22.1923
The 1,000,000th Chevrolet is produced
2.22.1947
Dr. J. Harry Clo, Director of Research for A. Schrader’s Son and an authority on air controlled automotive devices, dies in Waynesville, NC at age 65
2.22.1953
Severt Sundberg is killed when his Ferrari 166 crashes during an ice race in Burtrask, Sweden
2.22.1990
Victor Lasky, the critical biographer of Henry Ford II, dies in Washington, DC at age 72

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

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