This Day in Auto History: 03 October

10.3.1896 - The Paris-Marseille-Paris race ends during its tenth day with M. Mayade winning in his Panhard et Levassor

10.3.1928 - The Ford Motor Company announces its entry into the bus business

10.3.1937 - Harry R. McMahon, founder in 1914 and President 1914-1936 of the Standard Steel Spring Company, dies in Coraopolis Heights, PA at age 64

10.3.1945 - The first post-World War II Chevrolet automobile is produced

10.3.1955 - William F. Pioch Sr., a manufacturing engineering consultant to the Ford Motor Company and an employee of the firm since 1912, dies