Thursday, November 09, 2006

this Day in Auto History: 09 NOVEMBER

Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

11.9.1893
Clyde Colvin DeWitt, a chemist with the Ford Motor Company 1916-1917, is born in Hyndman, PA
11.9.1929
Racer Joe Lee Johnson is born in Cowpens, SC
11.9.1952
William N. Booth of the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Corporation dies in Lake Worth, FL at age 86
11.9.1960
Robert S. McNamara is named President of the Ford Motor Company by Chairman Henry Ford II

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

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