This Day in Auto History: 8.28.1897 Major-General Montgomery of Winchester purchases a Coventry-built Daimler in the first British sale of a vehicle to a person outside of the automobile industry 8.28.1907 The Oakland Motor Car Company is organized in Pontiac, MI by Edward M. Murphy, Frank E. Kirby, Alanson P. Brush, R. F. Monroe, M. J. Hallinan, C. J. Cram, and James Dempsey 8.28.1936 Lord Herbert Scott is elected Chairman of Rolls-Royce Ltd. 8.28.1948 Allen Rae of A. Schrader’s Son and a former executive of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Goods Company Ltd. dies 8.28.1959 Halsey R. Jones of the Timken Roller Bearing Company dies at age 55

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