Monday, August 25, 2008

This Day in Auto History:

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly

8.25.1880
Albert Gerry Partridge of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is born in Jamestown, NY
8.25.1910
Walden W. Shaw and John D. Hertz form the Walden W. Shaw Livery Company, ancestor of the Yellow Cab Company
8.25.1922
Fred Gilbert Secrest of the Ford Motor Company is born in Lakewood, OH
8.25.1941
The Packard Twentieth Series is introduced
8.25.1958
The Volvo PV544 is introduced

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

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