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Automobile Biographies The pioneer inventor of a two-cycle stationary engine. Born, November 26, 1844, at Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. The early education of Carl Benz was acquired at the Lyceum until his seventeenth year and then at the Technical High School of his native city for four more years. This was followed by three years of [...]
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Automobile Biographies Took sporting side of the automobile movement. So interesting was the sporting side of the automobile movement that it early attracted the attention of James Gordon Bennett. The great runs, or tours, or races commenced in 1891, and continued annually from 1894 on, resulted in the offering of the Bennett trophy for international [...]
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Automobile Biographies Noted Investogator of mechanism which was designed to be attached to carriages for the purpose of giving them motion by means of manual labor, or by other suitable power, and consisted of a peculiar combination of levers and rods. A very ingenious modification of William Brunton’s mechanical traveler was the subject of a [...]
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Automobile Biographies Harry H. Bassett was the leader of the greatest automobile organization in the world – General Motors. The place of honor at the Annual Automobile Show in New York has been won year after year by Buick. Its sales have regularly ranked first among all exhibitors. What accounts for such a record? Who, [...]
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Automobile Biographies Noted Investogator of steam locomotion on common roads. Born in Cork, Ireland, July 21, 1782. Died in London, April 4, 1861. The father of Sir James Caleb Anderson, of Buttevant Castle, Ireland, was John Anderson, a celebrated merchant of Ireland, famous as the founder of the town of Fermoy. The son gave much [...]
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Automobile Biographies Noted investogator of a common-road locomotive. In 1858 the firm of Daniel Adamson & Co., of Dukinfield, near Manchester, England, built a common-road locomotive for a Mr. Schmidt. A multitubular boiler was used, two and one-half feet in diameter and five and one-half feet long, with a working pressure of one hundred and [...]
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There is no need to recite in detail the events of 1939 or of 1940. The period was, in general, a recovery period. As such, it was similar to other recovery periods; indeed, a review of the course of events would give a recurrent feeling of “This is where I came in.” True, even a [...]
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Nineteen thirty-six, the fourth year of Roosevelt, was also the fourth year of marked business improvement. In addition to its relief and farm payments, the New Deal made an involuntary contribution to consumer prosperity by paying the World War veterans a $2,000,000,000 bonus. Big business was still thoroughly opposed to the New Deal, and still [...]
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In the meantime the country as a whole was continuing to recover from the depths of the depression, and the auto industry was recovering very much more rapidly than the country as a whole. Production for the first half of 1934 was 1,802,000 cars against 1,081,000 in the first half of 1933 an increase of [...]
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It was true that the price-fixing sections of the NRA did not do the auto industry any harm, even if they did not do it any good. But in passing the NRA, Congress, having done a good deal for the employer, felt itself obliged to do something for the employees as well. So the NRA [...]
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