This Day in Auto History: 07 September

9.7.1896 - A Riker Electric Trap driven by Andrew L. Riker and C. H. Whiting wins the first closed-course automobile race in United States at the Rhode Island State Fair in Narragansett Park

9.7.1910 - Racer Lee Wallard is born in Schenectady, NY

9.7.1915 - Willaim A. Besserdich is awarded a patent for his Steering Mechanism, a design used on most 4-wheel-drive vehicles

9.7.1939 - Racer Donnie Joseph Allison is born in Miami, FL

9.7.1951 - Racer Rad Dougall is born in South Africa

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

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