This Day in Auto Histroy: 09 MAY

This Day in Auto History: 5.9.1892 Warren Lowe Baker of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company is born in Washington, DC 5.9.1907 Nova Scotia issues the province’s first automobile license plate to W. M. Black of Wolfville 5.9.1928 The Borg-Warner Corporation is organized in Illinois through the merger of the Borg & Beck Company, the Marvel Carburetor Company, and the Warner Gear Company 5.9.1941 Walter S. Cochrane, a design engineer with Buick 1913-1926 and a diesel engine designer with the Chrysler Corporation since 1926, dies in Detroit, MI at age 55 5.9.1960 The last Volvo PV445 chassis is produced

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