Monday, June 16, 2008

This Day in Auto History:

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly

6.16.1895
Leonidas Theodore Barrow of the Humble Oil and Refining Company is born in Manor, TX
6.16.1913
Race promoter Joshua James “J.C.” Agajanian is born
6.16.1923
Walter E. Flanders dies at age 52 from injuries suffered in an automobile accident three weeks earlier
6.16.1937
The Long Island Motor Parkway Company dissolves after 31-years and deeds its pioneering toll highway to the public
6.16.1947
Henry Ford II announces that the 1948 Ford will be as different from the 1947 as the Model A was from the Model T

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

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