This Day in Auto History:

12.15.1893
Harvey Charles Fruehauf, a cofounder in 1915 with his father August C. Fruehauf of the Fruehauf Trailer Company, manufacturers of truck trailers, is born in Grosse Pointe Park, MI
12.15.1908
Bernard Alfred Chapman of American Motors is born in Detroit, MI
12.15.1915
Marius Albert van Merkensteijn of Kaiser-Frazer, Willys-Overland, Studebaker, and American Motors is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
12.15.1919
The Locomobile Company is organized by E. S. Hare to acquire the assets of the Locomobile Company of America
12.15.1941
The last 1942 Pontiac Chieftain is produced