This Day in Auto History:

5.16.1907 The Ardsley Motor Car Company of Yonkers, NY is officially dissolved 5.16.1928 Edward Macauley, son of corporation President Alvan Macauley, joins the Packard Motor Car Company 5.16.1946 Charles F. Carroll, the inventor of many improvements in automobile design, dies in Cleveland, OH at age 69 5.16.1956 John J. Caton, founder of the Chrysler Institute of Engineering, dies in Phillipsburg, NJ at age 76

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