Friday, November 03, 2006

This Day in Auto History: 03 NOVEMBER

Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

11.3.1888
Sir William Fraser, longtime British oil executive, is born in Glasgow, Scotland
11.3.1908
Kenneth Sholl Ferrand Corley of Joseph Lucas Industries, Ltd. is born in Birmingham, England
11.3.1919
Peter Morgan, Managing Director of the Morgan Motor Company Ltd. and son of founder H. F. S. Morgan, is born
11.3.1948
Racer Helmuth Koinigg is born in Vienna, Austria
11.3.1953
John Davenport Siddeley, Lord Kenilworth, Chairman of the Armstrong-Siddeley Motors Ltd., dies in Jersey, Channel Islands at age 87

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

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