This Day in Auto History: 29 August

8.29.1888 - Automobile historian Frank Ernest Hill is born in San Jose, CA

8.29.1917 - The Lincoln Motor Company is founded by Henry M. Leland to manufacture Liberty airplane engines

8.29.1934 - Rolls-Royce of America, Inc. reorganizes as the Springfield Manufacturing Company to avoid involving the Rolls-Royce name in bankruptcy proceedings

8.29.1948 - The first 1949 Kaiser is produced

8.29.1993 - Racer Roger McCluskey dies in Indianapolis, IN at age 63