Tuesday, April 10, 2007

This Day in Auto History: 10 APRIL

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

4.10.1891
George Gunn Jr., Vice President and Sales Manager of the White Motor Company 1925-1930, is born in Tacoma, WA
4.10.1914
Racer Paul Russo is born in Kenosha, WI
4.10.1929
Racer John Michael “Mike” Hawthorn is born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England
4.10.1944
Henry Ford II is elected Executive Vice President of the Ford Motor Company
4.10.1950
Tazio Nuvolari completes in his last automobile race, winning the 1.5 litre class at the Circuit of Monte Pellegrino in a Cisitalia

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

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