Today in Shite History

[Junkman]

1927

Last day of Model T production at Ford.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

In other news ,30 years later Touring Car legend Roberto Ravaglia was born. What could be more Autoshite than having a dodgy special edition named after you ?

Admittedly it wasn't quite an Escort Eclipse or Allegro Equipe.

[Squire_Dawson]

The Model T, ancestral autoshite.

 

Edit: don't forget Ford's Manchester Trafford Park factory.

[fred]

John Waynes Birthday !

[dollywobbler]

1906. Vauxhall Bridge is opened. A scrap facility just for Griffin-bearers.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The Duke in a Model T.

After jumping a slightly newer mass-produced Ford over a bridge slightly further down the Thames.

Could it have been filmed on the 26th May 1974 ?????

[alf892]

1927

 

Last day of Model T production at Ford.

I wonder if dealers added loads of special edition stickers to shift the last few?

[Junkman]

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The Duke in a Model T.

 

1914 Stutz Bearcat.

[Junkman]

1930 - Chrysler Building in NYC opened as the world's tallest building.

 

1923 - First Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is concluded. Winners Andre Lagache and Renee Leonard covered 1,372.928 miles in a Chenard-Walcker.

[Eno]

1927 Golden Gate Bridge opened. Not as well known or loved as Vauxhall bridge. Smidge longer though at 8981 feet opposed to Vauxhall's 809.

[plasticvandan]

1935 The first Reliant is built.cant get much more shite than that!

[Junkman]

1928: Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged.
 
1937: The German government formed a new state-owned automobile company, then known as "Gezuvor - Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH" (company for the preparation of the German people's car LTD). In 1938, it was renamed Volkswagenwerk GmbH.
 
2004: Umberto Agnelli, Fiat head honcho from 1970-1976 and 2003-2004 (i.e. until his death) dies aged 69.

[Matt]

So they formed a company whose purpose was to prepare the formation of another company that would then make a car?

[UltraWomble]

1913 the first roadside pumped petrol appeared in England -  prior to this petrol was sold in containers.

 

1958 Leyland Atlantean double deck bus produced

 

1978 Leyland (Lancashire) received running water to most domestic properties

 

1983 First moving picture shown in Leyland (The Empire Strikes Back)  - mass panic and portents of the end of the world are rife following.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

1928: Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged.

 

1937: The German government formed a new state-owned automobile company, then known as "Gezuvor - Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH" (company for the preparation of the German people's car LTD). In 1938, it was renamed Volkswagenwerk GmbH.

 

2004: Umberto Agnelli, Fiat head honcho from 1970-1976 and 2003-2004 (i.e. until his death) dies aged 69.

Seems like a good excuse to post a picture of Umberto's family car, he didn't have as many special Fiats as his brother but this one makes up for it.

[Junkman]

1950: Preston Tucker's lawsuit against his former prosecutors was thrown out of court.

 

Hungry to clear his name, Preston Tucker sued his former prosecutors on various grounds related to the destruction of his reputation. It was generally believed that Tucker's initial acquittal was an act of charity granted to an overly-ambitious, failed entrepreneur. His case was dismissed after little consideration. It was Preston Tucker's last-gasp effort to save his name, and it failed. His reputation has fared far better in recent years with the help of Hollywood.

 

2005: 23-year-old Danica Patrick becomes the first female driver to take the lead in the storied Indianapolis 500.

[sheffcortinacentre]

& that company rippd of its customers by never making the cars.

[Eno]

Firestone tires are telling me that today in 1935 L plates were introduced.

[Andrew353w]

Firestone tires are telling me that today in 1935 L plates were introduced.

Tied in with "L" plats being introduced today is the 80th anniversary of the driving test! Oddly my late grandmother (whose 2 big brothers ran a small garage in Instow, north Devon) never took a driving test and drove a (British) Mini until she was 90! Aged 15 she used to drive the newly-delivered cars (or "horseless carriages" as they were called then!) to their new owners. Cars were rare then..... 

[martc]

Tied in with "L" plats being introduced today is the 80th anniversary of the driving test! Oddly my late grandmother (whose 2 big brothers ran a small garage in Instow, north Devon) never took a driving test and drove a (British) Mini until she was 90! Aged 15 she used to drive the newly-delivered cars (or "horseless carriages" as they were called then!) to their new owners. Cars were rare then..... 

 

Apparently, during the second world war and the Suez crisis of 1956-57 driving tests were suspended and licences issued without a test being taken - some of these drivers will still be on the road!

 

In the first world war my granddad was put in the passenger seat  of an army lorry & told to watch the driver, after 15 minutes he was transferred to the driving seat and ordered to drive it. He moved onto ambulances and carried on with the army in Ireland. As part of his demob papers was a free civilian licence covering all the vehicles he had "learnt" to drive over trenches.

[Junkman]

May 31st 1929

After two years of exploratory visits and friendly negotiations, Ford Motor Company signs a landmark agreement to produce cars in the Soviet Union on this day in 1929.

[Junkman]

01 June

 

1896: In Paris, the first recorded automobile theft occurred. The Peugeot of Baron de Zuylen de Nyevelt was stolen by his mechanic.

1934: The Tokyo-based Jidosha-Seizo Kabushiki-Kaisha (Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in English) takes on a new name: Nissan Motor Company.

 

1959: Martin Brundle is born.

 

1986: Jo Gartner was killed during the 24h of Le Mans.

 

1989: Aurelio Lampredi, designer of the Ferrari engine that's named after him, died.

 

2009: General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.

[martc]

01 June

 

1896: In Paris, the first recorded automobile theft occurred. The Peugeot of Baron de Zuylen de Nyevelt was stolen by his mechanic.

 

 

 

 

 

Who promptly returned it and decided to wait until the Japanese try their hand at car building.

[Junkman]

02 June

 

1970: Bruce McLaren had a lethal accident at Goodwood.

[Junkman]

03 June

 

1864: Ransom Eli Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio.

 

1921: Mack adopted the Bulldog as a symbol for their trucks.

 

1947: Australian racing driver Mike Burgmann was born. He got killed in the 1986 Bathurst 1,000.

 

1957: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the chemical company E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. must give up its large stock interest in the Detroit-based automobile company General Motors on the grounds that it constituted a monopoly, or a concentration of power that reduced competition or otherwise interfered with trade.

[Junkman]

04 June

 

1896: Henry Ford unveils the "Quadricycle," the first automobile he ever designed or drove.

 

1959: Kihachiro Kawashima was appointed Executive Vice President, General Manager of American Honda Motor Company (seven employees, operating capital of $250,000); opened shop in a small storefront office on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles to serve customers wanting Japanese mopeds, haha.

 

2007: NASCAR founder Bill France Jr. dies, aged 74.

[Junkman]

05 June

 

1937: Henry Ford introduced the 32 hour work week in his domestic factories.

 

1998: 3,400 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union walked out on their jobs at a General Motors metal-stamping factory in Flint, Michigan, beginning a strike that lasted seven weeks and stalled production at GM facilities nationwide.

[Junkman]

06 June
 
1921: Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
 
1925: The Maxwell Motor Company was incorporated as the Chrysler Corporation.

 

1933: First drive in theater opens in Camden, NJ.

[Junkman]

07 June
 
1911: American shite designer Brooks Stevens was born.
 
1962: Credit Suisse, then known as Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (SKA), opens the first drive-through bank in Switzerland at St. Peter-Strasse 17 in Zurich.
          It featured eight glass pavilions, seven outfitted for left-hand drive cars and one for vehicles with right-hand drive.
 
1992: NASCAR founder Bill France Jr. died, aged 82.

[Junkman]

08 June

 

1948: A hand-built aluminum sports car prototype labeled "No. 1" became the first vehicle to bear the name Porsche.

 

1953: A cluster of 6 tornadoes touched down in Flint Michigan, killed 113 people and destroyed parts of the Fisher Body Plant, thus delayed GM car production for weeks.