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ISSUE 308 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2021 $5.00 US Contents 3 PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE SAHJournal 4 VERSARE, OH, OH… 8 ART, ARCHITECTURE AND THE AUTOMOBILE (PART VI) ISSUE 308 • JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 10 BOOK REVIEWS THE SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE HISTORIANS, INC. 15 IN MEMORIAM An Affiliate of the American Historical Association

details and to order a copy, go to this site: Billboard daltonwatson.com/Making-A-Marque-p/ Car Magazine Collection: making-a-marque-rr-promo.htm. SAH member Jan Fossum would like to do- SAH Board Nominations: Officers nate his car magazine collection to members The SAH Nominating Committee is H. Donald Capps President of the SAH. “I have had a lot of pleasure seeking nominations for positions on the Robert G. Barr Vice President from my library, maybe a younger person board through 2022. Please address all Robert Casey Secretary can take over. The collection must be picked nominations to the chair, Andrew Beckman, Rubén L. Verdés Treasurer up at my house, first come first serve. No at [email protected]. Board of Directors partial pick-up.” The collection is located Louis F. Fourie (ex-officio) ∆ in Norwich, CT, and includes Motor Trend Announcements: SAH member Dr. Bob Elton † (1950 to 1980), Special Interest Autos, most Pál Négyesi is the editor and publisher of the Kevin Kirbitz # Carla R. Lesh † CCA, AACA twelve binders, and misc. Brit- new magazine: Rare & Unique Vehicles. Please Chris Lezotte ∆ ish. Contact Jan at [email protected] or see the ad on p. 13, and visit the website at Casey Maxon ∆ by phone at +1.860.460.4435. rareandunique.media. SAH member Richard John Mohr # Lentinello (of Lentinello Publishing) has Dean Nelson † Get'm while they're hot!: The launched a new magazine: Crankshaft. Please Steve Purdy ∆ Robert Schmitt # next issue of the SAH Journal will include a visit the website at crankshaftmagazine. Terms through October (†) 2021, and (∆) 2022, (#) 2023 review for two books that are selling and pre- com. While you’re waiting for those two selling fast, so here are the details for your magazines to arrive in the mail, see issues of Editor Rubén L. Verdés consideration: Joseph Figoni, le Grand Cou- marque2market online right now (produced 7491 N. Federal Hwy., Ste. C5337 turier de la Carrosserie Automobile (Volume by your editor). Please visit the website at Boca Raton, FL 33487-1625 USA 1: Alfa Romeo) by SAH members Peter M. marque2market.com, click on “see issues.” [email protected] Larsen and Ben Erickson. Though it will be [email protected] tel: +1.561.866.5010 out in mid-July, pre-sales are moving swiftly. Save the dates: The SAH will be For details and to pre-order a copy, go to at Hershey in October for its annual meeting Publications Committee this site: motors-mania.com/en/motoring- of members and gala awards banquet. Also, Louis F. Fourie books/9989-joseph-figoni-volume-1-alfa- the SAH will have its annual presence in its Christopher G. Foster romeo.html. The other book, hospitality tent on the Orange field (OBB John Heitmann Making A Thomas S. Jakups Marque: Rolls-Royce Motor Car Promotion 17-19) during the Annual Fall Meet of the Donald J. Keefe 1904-1940 by SAHB members Peter Moss Antique Automobile Club of America. All Rubén L. Verdés and Richard Roberts is already available. For these will occur October 6-9, 2021. Steve Wilson SAH Journal (ISSN 1057–1973) Front and back cover: This car appeared at the 2020 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance (AIC). One of is published six times a year by The the neat things featured in this car was the record player—for more on this ’50s novelty, see these sites: Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. americanmusclecarmuseum.com/desoto-vehicles/6-1956-desoto-fireflite-indy-pace-car.html Subscription is by membership in the Society. macsmotorcitygarage.com/1956-chrysler-highway-hi-fi-detroits-first-in-car-record-player/ At the AIC, each car appears with a placard and a description of the vehicle. This is how that placard Membership dues are $50 per year ($60 read for this car: per year outside North America & Mexico); digital membership dues are $20. 1956 DeSoto Fireflite Pacesetter, American Muscle Car Museum, Melbourne, Florida Introduced in 1955, the FireFlite became the flagship for Chrysler Corporation’s DeSoto brand. Virgil Dues and changes of address go to: Exner’s “Forward Look” design with its two-tone paint and chrome accented trim, elegant fins topping Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. fang-shaped panels, an aeronautic inspired cockpit featuring a driver and passenger dashboard that c/o Cornerstone Registration Ltd. was beautiful in its simplicity and made the car a favorite with consumers. A pushbutton Powerflite P.O. Box 1715 transmission controlled the Hemi V8 that powered the car and produced 255 hp. Among those most Maple Grove, MN 55311-6715 USA impressed by the new FireFlite were Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Tony Hulman and his organizing committee who unanimously chose it as the Official Pace Car of the 1956 Indy 500 citing ©2021 its “outstanding performance and superb handling characteristics.” DeSoto produced about 400 The Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. Pacesetter Special-Edition convertibles with white and gold paint to commemorate the honor and www.autohistory.org supplied dealerships with stencils to recreate the lettering on the official race vehicles. Join, renew and more right on-line! 2 SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 Automotive Historians in Britain (SAHB); Automobilhistorische Gesellschaft e. V. Ger- PPresident’sresident’s PPerspectiveerspective many (AHG); Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Automobile (AISA); Patrimoine et year a certain level or at least a semblance of Histoire de l’Automobile en France (PHAF); normality might return, much of 2021 will and Contactgroep Automobiel-en Motor- continue to be something of a mixed bag. The rijwielhistorie (CONAM)) have put much cancellation of the International Drive His- effort into this conference and I strongly tory Conference, which the Historic Vehicle encourage all that can to attend. Association (HVA) headlines with the Society And, as always, I am hoping that the an- of Automotive Historians (SAH) as a partner, nual conference of the Automotive Historians for this year was a true disappointment, of Australia (AHA) continues to be a success. course. Diane Parker and her crew at the HVA I think that the conference at Castlemaine, have turned it into an event that is top-notch which is just north of Melbourne, will be just in every respect. Along with many others, I as great as the previous ones. Alas, I might am awaiting its return in 2022. have to miss it, as much as I would love to be The Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium there. for International Motor Racing History is If one begins to see a pattern, you are another event in which the SAH partners, correct. As automotive historians, we have a in this case the International Motor Racing public role to consider. While not everyone Research Center that is located in Watkins might be inclined to make a presentation at Glen, New York. Although it might not be conferences such as those mentioned (as well until 2022 that the Argetsinger Symposium as at those of the Popular Culture Associa- returns to its in-person form, this fall it should tion, which has a Vehicle Culture Group, or be joining a long—as in very, very long—list the Organization of American Historians of conferences and symposiums that have (OAH) or a museum or the local car club, gone digital. for that matter), we can attend and support “To Infi nity and Beyond!” Although it is now certain that it will be such endeavors—in person or digitally. pushed to the spring of 2022, the European Make time for the Drive History Confer- uzz Lightyear seems to have struck a nerve Automotive History Conference is another ence, the Argetsinger Symposium, the Euro Bwith me in recent days. The ongoing event that I can only say nothing but great Automotive History Conference, as well as pandemic that the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 things about. It will take place in Torino any other opportunity that presents itself to bug is still active among us seems to be drag- (Turin), Italy, and promises to be one well- present or discuss automotive history. It is ging on into yet another year. Although there worth making plans to attend. Those at our what historians do. seems to be some hope that by the end of the sister organizations in Europe (the Society of —H. Donald Capps

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oo far, eh? No, no, no, no! Referring to imprinted with VERSARE on the cover. Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Ve- Tthe Mystery Photo on page 2 of SAH Today, Versare is a brand of room divid- hicles, G.N. Georgano, Editor, G. Marshall Journal No. 307, Bill Newton writes: “I do ers and portable partitions. In the original Naul, U.S. Consulting Editor, Motorbooks not know the vehicle.” So far, no one has. Latin, it meant “be employed, busy one- International 1979) has the answer: Versare In fact, I wouldn’t have known if the album self,” literally "to turn to, turn often; think Corporation of Albany, New York, built in which the photo was bound had not been over.” The “Commercial Georgano” (The buses on the double-truck streetcar principle.

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4 SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 “There were two bogies, each driven by an electric motor, with the current supplied by a generator driven by a Buda gasoline engine located under the conventional front hood. The power plant was said to be readily removable for repairs, as were the bogies.” Introduced “[w]ith great fanfare in 1925,” they had aluminum-framed and -skinned bodies. “Four buses and a prototype truck are known to have been built; there could have been more.” SAH’s late Founding Member John Peckham, whose imprint is on the back of all the photos, was a resident of upstate New York’s Capital Region. An avid historian of commercial vehicles, he “majored” in fi re apparatus, particularly American-LaFrance, of which he was the offi cial historian. In 1927, a rear-engine model was an- nounced, as shown in the photos seen here. This elicited further interest, and in 1928 the Cincinnati Car Company of that Ohio city acquired the fi rm. They marketed a trolley-coach version under the Cincinnati name, but buses continued with the Versare brand and may have been built at the Versare factory in Watervliet, N.Y. About 100 buses and 40 trolley-coaches were built, used by transportation companies in New York, Al- bany, Montréal, Cleveland, Boston and Salt Lake City. Production is said to have ended in 1931. At fi rst I thought the truck in the RRearear vviewiew ooff tthehe llaterater modelmodel VersareVersare bbusus iillustratesllustrates tthehe eease(!)ase(!) wwithith wwhichhich tthehe iimmensemmense ggasolineasoline eenginengine andand generatorgenerator cancan bebe removedremoved forfor service.service.

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mystery photo was the prototype mentioned crates holding Polar Water glass jugs. At that vehicle’s axles. I’m pretty sure it’s the factory in the encyclopedia entry, but I think it’s just time I had not seen a glass jug in years. As “mule” with a full load of axles. an early bus chassis used as a factory “mule.” I understood they wanted to get rid of the Mark Theobald’s Ingersoll Award- As for the “little boxes,” Bill says “the glass jugs so there was ‘no deposit no return’.” winning website, Coachbuilt.com, has cargo reminds me of wooden crates used to At fi rst, I, too, thought of large glass much more detail on Versare: http://www. carry the old glass 5-gallon Polar water jugs, jugs. In looking more closely, however, I note coachbuilt.com/bui/v/versare/versare.htm so I guess they are crates used to ship glass that the arrangement is asymmetrical, with bottles or jugs or crocks. the “fi ller neck” off-center, unusual for a glass As this issue goes to press, we heard from “When our reserve unit was mobilized jug and probably diffi cult to manufacture. long-time commercial vehicle historian for Gulf War I, one of the things I saw was Looking even more closely at the “caps,” I John Montville (#163): The mystery photo pallets and pallets of rickety old wooden believe they look just like the hub caps on the on page two of SAH Journal #307 is a 6 SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 RRubber-tired,ubber-tired, ssteeringteering rail-typerail-type truckstrucks allowedallowed mmaneuveringaneuvering onon citycity streets.streets.

Versare double-tandem, gas-electric truck. “The Versare Corporation was basically Ordnance Department at Fort Holabird, According to research published by the a motor bus builder but is believed to have [Maryland,] for testing. Apparently, none Motor Bus Society, the Versare Corporation built three prototype heavy-duty trucks with of these prototypes resulted in any produc- of Watervliet, New York, built this prototype various wheel arrangements. The one in tion models and the fi rm basically ceased in 1926 using tandem units with electric the photo is believed to be carrying Eaton operations by 1929.” drive in the rear axle of each tandem. axles. [aha!] It was later sent to the Army —Kit Foster

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Editor’s note: This is the sixth chapter of an eight-part presentation necessary; the form and the structural ambiance was all that was presenting a historical contextual triad of Art, Architecture and the needed to express the social prestige of the Cadillac automobile. Automobile. The series began with issue #303—the reader is encouraged The art and architecture of this period is identifi ed as Googie. to refer to that issue, which included an introduction, for added context The name arose from a renovation by Mel Weiss of Mels diner in and understanding of the entire series’ presentation. California, which included spires and other details that suggested space travel. Googie was a nickname which Mel used for his wife, VI. SPACE AGE, 1948 TO 1968 and the name, although the intent was unexplained, became ap- It is described by the dictum Form follows Fantasy. plied to his favored architecture. Interestingly, the sound when the word is spoken also seems to suggest the somewhat outrageous utomobiles in this era are characterized by streamlined bodies, space-age style. Atail fi ns and other features which mimic the components of an airplane or at least suggest a space-age motif. The small clouds drifted across the sky and the sun seemed to electrify the chrome trim of the 1959 pink Cadillac convertible as it quietly approached the judges’ reviewing stand. David Holls stared at the car without saying a word, a wry smile on his face as he seemed to take in the view of this stylish and perhaps defi ning automobile of the 1950s. He spoke quietly, but defi nitively; “It just seemed like the right thing to do,” he said. Those words have haunted me ever since for that one brief sentence captured the era, the ambience and the style envisioned by this famous automobile designer. He captured the essence of the Googie era, for it was not just the winged form of the automobile, but it was an entire culture of space fantasy in television programming, in clothing and in everyday conversation as refl ected in the Honeymooners TV show; “One of these days Alice, you’re going to the moon!” The Cadillac was iconic, and many Cadillac advertisements showed that image of the fi n with a prestigious hotel, restaurant AArchitecture:rchitecture: ThisThis McDonald’sMcDonald’s rrestaurantestaurant waswas bbuiltuilt iinn thethe latelate 1960s1960s or vacation spot in the background. The word “Cadillac” was not oonn GullGull RoadRoad justjust northeastnortheast ofof Kalamazoo,Kalamazoo, Michigan.Michigan. 8 SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 AArchitecture:rchitecture: TheThe RadissonRadisson hotelhotel inin KKalamazoo,alamazoo, whichwhich waswas rredesignededesigned ssinceince tthehe yearyear 22000,000, aappearsppears ttoo ffeatureeature ttwowo llandinganding platformsplatforms forfor spacecraft,spacecraft, mmakingaking iitt anan exampleexample ofof GoogieGoogie architecture.architecture.

Googie art is fanciful and its commer- to it as a “Martian Ground Chariot.” cial use includes expressive forms of spires, However, Tom Cahill opined that “it arches, vaulted roof lines and perhaps large would bounce the eyeballs out of the low- areas of glass. The setting is often fanciful as price fi eld buyer.” The car fi ts well with a though the object was suspended in space, McDonald’s restaurant with its prominent and examples vary from the Seattle Space arches, vaulted roof and bright colors which AArt:rt: TheThe verticalvertical spiresspires andand globeglobe likelike sstructurestructures aatt thethe toptop ofof thisthis artworkartwork areare Needle to the St. Louis Arch. Commercial give it a space age appearance. iindicativendicative ofof thethe GoogieGoogie style.style. signage tends to instill a sense of fl ight and The conglomerate of various uplifting fancy with vertical spires and arrows sur- forms which are often engaged with bright rounding a globe. colors continues to this day in art and archi- The era also is expressed quite clearly tecture, perhaps as an artful remembrance by the 1959 Chevrolet. Some critics were of a fantasy laden past. most clear in their assessment, and referred —David O. Lyon

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SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 9 entire 123 (so far) years since its 1898 found- had utilized these ladders during construc- ing. More recently Goodyear has transferred tion of their giant blimps. possession of some 3,000 cubic feet of those Another term unfamiliar to me was BBookook fi les, documents and photographs—images “goldbeaters’ skin.” Fleischer does explain alone number around one million—to the this one and how it was utilized at Good- University of Akron’s archives, now known year. The story of the Ghost Blimp may be as the American History Research Center, familiar to some readers, but it was a learn- RReviewseviews more commonly referred to as Special Col- ing experience for me and turns out to be lections, in order to preserve and make them one which, to this day, remains an unsolved available for research. To date, enabled by a disappearance. grant from the National Endowment for the Over the decades, Goodyear has devel- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company: A Humanities, UA has digitized some 23,000 oped and made such wide-ranging numbers Photographic History, 1898-1951 of those nearly a million images. and types of products that showing and tell- by S. Victor Fleischer ing its story touches nearly every phase and University of Akron Press (2020) aspect of life and living. This is essentially [email protected] | +1.330.972.7111 a picture book featuring nearly 200 of the ext. 6962 23,000 scanned images, accompanied by 292 pages, 8.75" x 11.25" hardcover Fleischer’s descriptive and explanatory cap- 193 b/w photos, chapter end notes, indexed tions. It is organized into sections in order Price: $49.95 to cover the panoply of items Goodyear has ISBN-10: 1629220469 produced over the decades. ISBN-13: 978-1629220468 There are, of course, all manner of tires, and road-going as well as those for equipment The Legend of Goodyear: The First 100 that does not traverse roads but rather works Years fi elds, mines and construction sites. Then by Jeffrey L. Rodengen come balloons and airships, followed by Write Stuff (1997) goods for home, offi ce and industry. Good- WriteStuffBooks.com/ year, as with all other major U.S. makers of 256 pages, 9.5" x 11.75" hardcover, dustcover things, repurposed itself in order to create 210 b/w and 110 color photos, chapter needed materials during both world wars as notes, indexed the book’s concluding pages show and tell. Price: $39.95 Therefore what’s put before the reader is a ISBN-10: 0945903359 This book’s author, S. Victor Fleischer, wonderful look at the diversity of mankind’s ISBN-13: 978-0945903352 holds multiple degrees in history and is a inventiveness, achievements, and some of its and trained professional archivist, today serving as entertainments, too. Tire Wars: Racing with Goodyear University of Akron’s Archivist and Head of Some words are in order about those by William Neely Archival Services which has placed him most “other two” books for, as mentioned, with Aztex Corporation (1993) advantageously to create this book. A task he virtually no overlap between the three, they Various booksellers (publisher defunct) achieved in stellar style for The Goodyear Tire very much complement one another. 192 pages, 8.75" x 11.25" hardcover, dustcover & Rubber Company; A Photographic History, 226 b/w and 52 color photos, indexed 1898-1951. Text and captions are notably Price: $29.95 erudite and motivate the curious reader to ISBN-10: 089404091X learn more in order to clearly comprehend ISBN-13: 978-0894040917 all he’s written. As an example, do you know what a he Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; Magirus ladder is? Your commentator did T A Photographic History, 1898-1951 by not but what I found was wonderful to S. Victor Fleischer becomes the third book learn: Conrad Dietrich Magirus founded in my library that are Goodyear histories. his company in 1867 in Germany. Today Strikingly, there is virtually no overlap or the company bearing his surname is still repetition among the three, a clear indication very much in business making all manner of the depth and breadth of Goodyear’s his- of highly-respected and desired top-of-the- tory, products, and accomplishments which line fi refi ghting equipment in order to keep are ongoing to this calendar year. those individuals, whom Conrad Dietrich As impressive—perhaps even more called “heroes,” safest while going about so—is that the company preserved its re- their often dangerous work. It all began with cords, fi les and photographs documenting the specialized multiple-extending movable its existence and business activities for the ladders he invented and patented. Goodyear

10 SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 Jeffrey L. Rodengen was (and still is) in The Doble Steam Car completion. In the end failing health and a the business of writing corporate and compa- by Jim Crank paucity of funds nearly vindicated the cyni- ny histories. The Legend of Goodyear: The First Doble Steam Press (2019) cism. Thanks to Jim Anderson, the impre- 100 Years was published upon the occasion doblesteampress.square.site/ sario of the Doble Steam Press, which was of Goodyear achieving its centenary birthday 667 pages, 14.25" x 11" hardcover, two organized to see the publication through, and, from the extensive list of names in the volumes with slipcase and 20 individuals named in the acknowl- Acknowledgements, it’s obvious Rodengen Profusely illustrated with b/w and color im- edgements, The Doble Steam Car came to had the full cooperation of the company and ages and drawings. market in 2019, two years after Jim Crank’s its execs, current and past, as well as access to Price: $500 passing. He didn’t live to see it, but there’s the archives (still in Goodyear’s possession, ISBN-10: 0578464632 no doubt he would have been pleased. So as this book predates that transfer of custody ISBN-13: 978-0578464633 were the SAH judges, who blessed it with to U of A). Rodengen actually opens his our Award of Distiction. story half-a-dozen years prior to Goodyear It is, in fact, much more than a history being established so he can write about that of the Doble steam car, itself renowned as vulcanization process Charles Goodyear de- the most technically sophisticated of its veloped. This book is very much populated genre. It begins with three chapters con- with people important to the company in a sidering the steam car in its era, the ratio- myriad of roles and is an excellent read. nale behind it and it contrasts the various approaches by makers such as Serpollet, Stanley, White, Brooks, Delling and Scott- Newcombe. It then delves into some discus- sion about steam versus internal combustion and electric vehicles before concluding that “…gasoline and diesel engines have ongtime readers of SAH Journal will have progressed to an astonishing high level of Lseen an innocuous Billboard ad back in economy, reduced size, clean combustion 1991 (No. 132), offering an entire automo- and reliability and they still dominate the bile company for $45,000. It described an market and will for decades.” This, certainly, “[o]pportunity to purchase the Doble Steam was written before today’s manufacturers Motors Corporation. Assets include the Cali- began betting otherwise. fornia corporation, title, and rights to same; In the fourth chapter we learn some the eight remaining engineering notebooks; Doble family history: blacksmiths and mak- approximately 250 4"x5" negatives….and ers of miners’ tools and other iron goods, other items too numerous to list.” It was exploiting water power for electricity genera- The third book, Tire Wars: Racing with placed by James D. Crank, President, Doble tion and industrial uses. Abner Doble, the Goodyear, is tightly focused on just one Steam Motors Corporation (member #1153). second son of the family to be so named (his aspect of Goodyear’s business: motorsports. Apparently no buyer came forward and that grandfather was the fi rst), was born March But given that Goodyear’s fi rst racing experi- is fortunate; otherwise this book almost 26, 1890 in San Francisco, California. Ab- ence began with a gratis shodding of Henry certainly would never have been published. ner and his brother, Warren, built their fi rst Ford’s 999 prior to his 1901 victory on Jim Crank (1935-2017) was a Senior steam car around 1908, a buckboard using Detroit Driving Club’s oval and continues to Research Specialist with Lockheed Corpora- a White burner and fl ash boiler, along with today, well beyond this book’s 1993 publica- tion, and later a Senior Research Engineer at an engine of Abner’s own design. tion, it’s a long story encompassing nearly the Stanford Research Institute. Recognized In 1910, Abner went east to study at every type of racing imaginable. Written by as an authority on steam power systems, he the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one-time Goodyear racing public relations had long been fascinated by Abner Doble but left after his fi rst term to concentrate on head turned motorsports writer Bill Neely, it and his iconic steam cars. This led to col- hands-on experiments with steam propul- too has authority behind what it imparts of lecting Doble ephemera and eventually to sion. With money from his father, he opened ninety-two years of the history of Goodyear’s discovering what remained of the Corpora- the Abner Doble Company in Waltham, participation in multiple racing series. tion. In 1981, he was able to acquire the Massachusetts. Within a year, he and his There’s every reason to believe and hope actual rights to the Corporation and all its brother, John, had a running test chassis on that as the folks in the archives/Special Col- assets. With the assets secured, he was in the the road, retroactively designated “Model lections section at the University of Akron perfect position to chronicle the history of A.” The Model B, completed in 1914, was, work their way through the vast amount of the Dobles and their exploits and it became in Crank’s words, “their fi rst integrated, literature, photographs, and fi les another his sole focus late in life. purpose-built automobile design.” Waltham book may be in the offi ng one day. Certainly Engineers are known for being persnick- is close to Newton, Massachusetts, where the if it’s anything like the quality and caliber of ety and thorough, so it took a long time to famed Stanley twins were already building these three it will absolutely be welcomed! put the whole project together, so much and selling steam cars. The Dobles delighted —Helen V Hutchings so that cynics began to doubt its eventual in taunting their neighboring automakers by

SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 11 driving a Model B tourer up and down in only in the text: there are no footnotes, no should this next comment be misconstrued front of the Stanley factory. Far from being endnotes, no bibliography. There is, how- as a criticism for it is an observation based insulted, the twins rushed out to examine the ever, a plethora of technical material in two on the percentage of the book’s 320 pages youngsters’ condensing apparatus, a refi ne- appendices, one for each volume. and the amount of words on those pages ment they had not yet fi tted to their cars. Most annoying is the lack of an index, that are indicated as direct quotes of/from Subsequent chapters detail the Doble inexcusable in this era when technology Chris Pook. It is unclear whether Pook wrote models, including a chassis-by-chassis cata- makes it so easy. Fortunately, detailed, com- them or they are being cited by Kirby from logue of the fabled Series E cars through to plete and identical tables of contents in each taped interviews, but their quantity makes the downfall of the company in 1933. Abner volume have page references for all the topi- this book an as-told-to autobiography rather Doble was not fi nished with steam however. cal subheadings, of great help in navigating than a biography. Crank explores his later work in the USA, the entire work. There’s high energy on every page, for including with the Stanley company and At $500 it is not for the impecunious Kirby’s wordsmith skills render this a fast- Greyhound buses, as well as consultancies buyer, but this is inevitable for well-pro- paced read that fully engages the reader from in New Zealand and with Sentinel in the duced works on niche subjects. It is available fi rst page to last. The narrative progresses from United Kingdom. from Thomas E Warth Esq Automotive Pook’s childhood in England, his country of Very well produced, the book is at- Books in Minnesota, Autobooks-Aerobooks birth, during which he displayed a competi- tractively laid out and profusely illustrated in Burbank, California, and the Stanley tive spirit coupled with the tenacity to succeed with black and white photos, drawings and Museum in Maine. Of course you can get it at whatever task or challenge he’d taken on. charts. The prose of engineers is not often from Amazon, but if you’re really interested Graduated from the Sorbonne, Pook considered “a good read,” but this book is in steam cars you should probably belong emigrated to America where his entrepre- just that. Jim Crank himself shines through to the Steam Automobile Club of America neurial spirit bubbled to the surface. The fi rst with a number of clarifying and explanatory (www.steamautomobile.com). The SACA company he established was soon bought sentences rendered in the fi rst person. Storeroom offers a substantial discount to out by a bigger one and by now, thoroughly It is not without a few shortcomings. members. an Angelino, Pook acted on an inspiration The citation of source material is spotty and —Kit Foster leading, in 1974, to establishing the Long Beach Grand Prix. Chris Pook & the History of the Long each contributes signifi cantly to different areas Details of the challenges encountered Beach GP not previously written about in book form, both and met over the ensuing years will ring by Gordon Kirby are worthy of being added to one’s library. –hvh familiar to business folk who have attempted Racemaker Press (2020) any new venture involving dealing with the racemaker.com/ +1.617.723.6533 bureaucrats in order to adhere to rules, laws 320 pages, 10½" x 10¼" hardcover, dustcover and regulations. In Pook’s case it wasn’t only 39 b/w and 126 color photos, six track draw- the city, state, and local authorities but race ings, appendices sanctioning bodies too. As Pook repeatedly Price: $80 iterates it all would have been more diffi cult, ISBN-10: 0999875426 if not impossible, were it not for the early ISBN-13: 978-0999875421 enthusiastic support and participation of one and Daniel Sexton Gurney. The Cellini of Chrome: The Story of The book proceeds, chapter by chapter, George W. Walker / Ford Motor Company’s sharing details chronologically, of the race First Vice President of Design series that ran on Long Beach Grand Prix by Henry Dominguez weekends, drivers, teams and much more. Racemaker Press (2020) The concluding appendices list the various racemaker.com/ +1.617.723.6533 teams and drivers that triumphed at Long 384 pages, 11" x 10¼" hardcover, dustcover Beach as well as diagrams of the various 250 b/w and 78 color photos hris Pook & the History of The Long Beach track confi gurations. Together Chris Pook Price: $90 C GP is the life story of the man: Chris and Gordon Kirby have shared between the ISBN-10: 0999875434 Pook. As (or more) importantly, it is also covers of this book Chris’ story and that of ISBN-13: 9780999875438 very much about the business of doing busi- the Long Beach Grand Prix and open wheel ness that is professional auto racing. While racing from 1975 to 2019 in a grand way. These books each tells their respective stories most books tend to focus on a single team, fully and well as each was written by a respected this is about an entire series, along with the The Cellini of Chrome: The Story of George historian and author. Both are handsome, well- physical facilities and locations where they W. Walker / Ford Motor Company’s First Vice made presentations published by Racemaker run—not a perspective usually shared on President of Design is the fi rst book-length bi- Press, which is owned and operated by another the written page. ography of George W. Walker. That in itself respected historian. Thus, that neither book has Well-written by veteran racing journal- is rather astounding since George Walker was an index and both display less than attentive ist and book author Gordon Kirby, this book one member of the triumvirate of designers proofi ng is all the more mysterious. However, as is characterized as a biography. In no way directly responsible for bringing the style

12 SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 Fascinating Walker fi rst worked for Ford in 1945-46 Aspects of as a consultant when he, as head of the design fi rm he’d es- Automotive tablished, was asked to submit a design for what would History be Ford’s fi rst new – Every Quarter – car produced since WWII had ended. The result was the and design functions to Detroit automakers. notable-to-this-day The other two were Raymond Loewy and 1949 Ford. Harley Earl, about whom reams of paper, Walker’s con- in the form of both magazine articles and sultancy continued books, have been dedicated. on and off—with It is only now, thanks to author Henry other notable de- Dominguez, that we have a book about Walker signs attributed to that takes its title from the November 1947 Walker—leading to issue of Time magazine that featured Walker Ford at last recog- on its cover. There’s some irony here for Time nizing design as a had featured Raymond Loewy on the cover of separate function re- an October 1949 issue—but never published quiring a corporate a cover feature on Harley Earl. level head. George The Cellini of Chrome is an important W. Walker was asked book with Dominguez doing a fine job to sell or close his rareandunique.media writing of Walker both personally and successful industrial professionally, although he admits that he design fi rm and become Ford’s fi rst VP of Developing a Champion: The Electramotive never met or interviewed his subject. A design—which he did in May 1955. Nissan GTP Story is nothing short of splen- bibliography would have been a wonderful To his credit, Dominguez doesn’t shy did at covering its subject which is docu- inclusion in the book but even without it away from writing about some of the more mentably supported information relevant is possible to discern many, if not all, of controversial aspects of Walker, offsetting to IMSA and Nissan 1974 to 1989. It was Dominguez’s sources from a close reading those passages with pages also showing and then absorbed by Nissan and became Nissan of his Introduction coupled with the latter telling of the wonderful family life that Performance Technology, Inc (NPTI). pages of his closing chapter. Walker provided his children and grand- Self-published by Chris Willes, a fi rst- Chapters in between tell Walker’s children. Taken as a whole, this book is an time writer who was one of the Electramotive story along with revealing some of the enjoyable and historically relevant read. team engineers, the book does not contain behind-the-scenes machinations at Ford. —Helen V Hutchings an index but a thorough and comprehen- sive one is available for inspection and free Developing A Champion: The Electramo- 70 b/w and 126 color images, appendices tive NISSAN GTP Story and index by Chris Willes Price: $110 Chris Willes Auto Racing Books (2020) ISBN-10: 0768095123 ChrisWillesAutoRacingBooks.com/ ISBN-13: 978-0768095128 444 pages, 9" x 12" hardcover, dustcover 36 b/w and 480 color images, and 45 techni- Each of these books is about developing and cal drawings/illustrations contesting race machines. They share in Price: $72 common descriptions of the basic process of ISBN-10: 0578568799 development, testing leading to refi nements, ISBN-13: 978-0578568799 competitive running, usually followed by still and more refi nements, etc. They also share a com- McLaren: The Engine Company: A History mon thread clearly showing the ingenuity, of McLaren Engines, Inc. and its Successors intelligence, creativity, and ability of team by Roger S Meiners individuals to perform under intense pressure. SAE International (2020) Even with all the common threads, including books.sae.org/ each being written by an insider, their stories 271 pages, 12" x 9.25" hardcover differ in important details, as you’ll read. –hvh

SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 13 download at www.ChrisWillesAutoRacing- beyond the racing accident that claimed made the kit-car automobiles bearing his Books.com, the author’s website. It may be his life. Actually over the years there have surname. ASHA had a patented all-wheel of interest to some SAH members reading been a multiplicity of companies with drive system with hydro-mechanical-type this that while Willes used InDesign to cre- McLaren as part of their names and located limited-slip differentials that it called ate the book’s pages, he utilized a program in several lands. This Society of Automotive Gerodisc. McLaren subsequently licensed available online called TExtract (see https:// Engineers-published (SAE) book, McLaren: use of the technology to a variety of other www.texyz.com/textract/) to create the index The Engine Company, authoritatively covers, companies. As the book ends, McLaren itself and described it as “working quite well and untangles and delineates the entire history became a part of Canadian-based Linamar easily.” Moreover there’s nary a misspell, typo of the various McLarens from the middle- Corporation and now operates as Linamar’s or misspeak anywhere on any of its 444 pages 1960s to the current day. McLaren Engineering meaning the complete and the narrative is lucidly and well-written. Author Roger S. Meiners was and is history of McLaren is still being written. As Willes tells Electramotive’s story, a true insider. He has been part of all the The SAE-published McLaren: The the company’s history is also very much a various McLaren companies since 1980, Engine Company: A History of McLaren En- people story, a racing history, and shares sometimes as an employee, other times as gines, Inc. and its Successors, despite having considerable well-explained technical de- a consultant. Additionally Meiners is also the staff and prior publishing experiences, tails. Literally, the beginnings involve Peter an amateur vintage-car road racer and a does contain some typographic “oopses” and Brock and his Datsun (remember that was published automotive writer/photographer the index is only rudimentary. It does have the name Nissan used when it fi rst arrived with a law degree. appendices but I also found myself wishing in America) BRE team. Driver John Morton The McLaren story encompasses a a timeline had been included as it would continued his involvement once Datsun had wide array of vehicles, experiences, racing have facilitated keeping the various McLaren completed its three-year name change. series, and years. From ’60s Grand Prix companies sorted out. I’ve made a note to Photographs are notable, for while there to ’70s Can-Am, various Formulas, Indy/ attempt to create one when I reread as surely are some of the usual racing images, there Cart, NASCAR and more were powered I will one day. It is also a bit mystifying why are many taken in-shop to document work with McLaren-engineered motors based on the oversize landscape format was chosen as in progress, as well as engineering drawings Chevrolets, Cosworths, Buicks, Cadillacs, most of the nearly 200 photographs don’t accompanied by words (text and captions) of Saleens to Vipers. One of the latter day take advantage of it although it certainly details including an entire chapter dedicated McLaren companies even merged with and does provide the opportunity for the book’s to the creation, function and subsequent acquired ASHA, a company established by dramatic cover. charts/graphs of results of Electramotive’s Alain Clénet, the very same Clénet who —Helen V Hutchings 1/7th scale wind tunnel. Similar detailed explanations and photos show the dyna- mometer installation, testing, and results. Ferrari dealer from the Cover-to-cover Developing a Champion: A 1960s to the 1990s, The Electramotive NISSAN GTP Story relates Robert E. Guarino recounts a its story in a satisfyingly comprehensive and lifetime with the iconic brand readable manner. Racing history has been and other exceptional auto- very well served, indeed, by Chris Willes mobiles. Chapters detail a (pronounced as though it were spelled Willis) wide range of experiences, for it is just excellent in the details that only an like a nonstop drive in a engineer who also carefully preserved records, 308GTB from Chicago to drawings and fi les could chronicle as the Elec- Boston; rides with important tramotive people devised “the solutions [that figures like Piero Ferrari at enabled them] to go from a mangled heap of Fiorano and Dario Benuzzi at metal to champagne-soaked celebrations.” Mugello; and visits to the Ferrari, Maserati and Lam- borghini factories. This book follows one man’s all-encompassing journey with great cars and their owners and is packed with insights into the life cycle of a Ferrari, from production to sales.

310 pages $39.95 softcover (7 ¥ 10) 2021 The word “McLaren” brings to mind McFarland 191 photos, index ISBN 978-1-4766-8122-1 thoughts of driver/engineer Bruce McLaren. McFarlandBooks.com • 800-253-2187 Ebook ISBN 978-1-4766-3969-7 The company he established continued long 14 SAH Journal No. 308 • January / February 2021 latter became a fervent cause, and a sub-career in In 1999 he enticed me to Britain for Beaulieu In Memoriam helping British owners recover the original registra- Autojumble, the UK’s admitted answer to Hershey. tion numbers of their own discoveries. His routine entailed a journey of nearly 200 miles from He was a long-time friend of Keith Marvin, western Wales in “Arthur,” his 1927 Austin Twenty, Michael J. Worthington-Williams MBE though the two did not meet in person until the late which had reportedly seen more than a million miles in (1938-2021) 1990s. They shared a fondness (in Keith’s case more taxi service at Henley-on-Thames. Thus began a tradi- an obsession) with the assembled cars of the 1920s. tion, Beaulieu in September and Hershey in October, Thus, readers of The Automobile were schooled that continued for many years. After Hershey week we on such topics as the Daniels automobile, Willys- would spend another few days hobnobbing with such Overland-Crossley of Stockport, U.K., and engineer luminaries as Fred Roe, Keith Marvin, Bob Johnson Fred M. Guy, inventor of the disc-valve engine. At the and Charlie LeMaitre, and visiting New England’s time of his passing, Mike was the only contributor to abandoned monuments to America’s automotive have been published in every issue of that magazine, industrial past. Our last Autojumble journey in Arthur which was launched in 1982. was in 2006, when we experienced ominous noises I was introduced to Mike by the late British from the undercarriage. Not long after we returned to historian and then SAH board member Michael Sedg- Wales, Arthur’s back axle disintegrated. Arthur was wick. I was researching the activities of the Hudson sold soon afterwards, but Mike spent the rest of his Motor Car Company in England, for an article to be life trying to buy him back. published in White Triangle News, magazine of the Mike was not a hands-on collector so much as a Hudson Essex Terraplane Club. I had met Sedgwick, guardian of the realm. He employed others to work on and also Nick Georgano, while harvesting history at his cars, each one being a substantial project worthy the National Motor Museum library in 1981. I also of preservation, such makes as Angus Sanderson, needed photos, and Sedgwick suggested I write to Storey (you can look it up), Crouch and Calcott. At Mike W-W, who was known to have some. I did and one point he had a mighty Fiat Typo 56 limousine, he did, and we came to an arrangement that matured built at Poughkeepsie, New York. It had come into into a friendship. During one of our British trips, his hands while he was managing Sotheby’s classic I visited him in Capel Iwan, a tiny Welsh village, car auction department in the 1980s. When Sotheby’s while returning from a jaunt with my son to Ireland. exited the collector car business, he began consulting Glaspant Manor, a derelict estate that he and his for Robert Brooks, continuing after Brooks acquired father-in-law had restored, became a regular stopping- the Bonhams business. ike Worthington-Williams, British automotive off place whenever I was in the UK. We corresponded, Perhaps the pinnacle of Mike’s career was Mhistorian, journalist and Friend of Automotive sometimes erratically, on subjects of mutual interest. his place on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in History, died on February 8, 2021, after a short illness. In the early 1990s, Mike became editor of a 2018, when he was instituted as a Member of the He had recently turned 83. A man of far-reaching start-up magazine, Classic Car Mart. Like many British Empire “for service to automotive history.” interests, he had a fondness for motorcycles, cyclecars others of its ilk, its purpose was advertising, but Mike This represented not only his efforts for our profes- and unusual makes of all kinds. He wrote about them put his stamp on it with extensive editorial features sion, but also the importance of our fi eld of study in with great enthusiasm and authority. and reader participation that ranked with the best of the course of human life. He was presented with the Michael James Worthington-Williams was born the genre. He was rewarded with the Journalist of the award by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in Wandsworth, southwest London, on January 30, Year award. At his request I started a regular feature that November. 1938. As the city became a wartime bombing target on American cars, “Yankee Ingenuity,” that ran for Mike is survived by Pam, his wife of more than in 1940, he and his family retreated to live with his seven years. 40 years, their children Beth, Nicky, Nat and Jane, grandparents in Hassocks, Sussex, where he grew Mike had joined SAH in July 1972, member and three grandchildren. He is also survived by three up. After leaving school he worked in the insurance #168, and served as vice president from 1974-75. children and three grandchildren from a previous business, followed by a stint with the Royal Air Force, For many years he chaired the UK Chapter, becoming marriage, as well as a brother, Richard. He was pre- including service in Germany. Returning home to Chairman Emeritus by the time of its separation and deceased by a daughter who died during childhood. civilian life he settled into a job as a “repo man” for establishment as SAHB, the independent Society of He and I were an odd couple in many ways, very Bowmakers, a rent-to-own company. Automotive Historians in Britain. different in temperament. He loved holding forth and The pattern of his professional life had actually It was SAH, in fact, that convinced Mike to spellbinding friends and acquaintances with tales of been predetermined earlier. At age 18, an article he quit his job with Bowmakers and become a free- his discoveries and adventures, while I’m content to wrote about his discovery and recommissioning of lance writer. In 1973, he received a letter from Mary avoid the limelight and take in what others are doing. a 1926 BSA 1,000 cc twin motorcycle with sidecar Cattie, then the awards chair, that he had won our We were, however, of one mind on most aspects of was published in in Veteran and Vintage Magazine. then-Cugnot Award for Articles for “Dolphin Motors automotive history and the importance of getting it Founded by Lord Montagu, V&V, as it was fondly of Shoreham,” about Harry Ricardo, his company right. We also agreed about the preservation and use called, was published from the National Motor Mu- and many engineering feats, published in Sussex of old cars. He loved what he called “oily rag” cars seum at Beaulieu. Mike had discovered the bike while Industrial History. He would be honored again in epitomized by Arthur, unrestored vehicles that needed searching with friends for old vehicles in sheds and 1982, for “The Autovia,” about the obscure Riley just a wipe with an oily rag to be driven far and wide. barns, what we now celebrate as “barn fi nds.” Having offshoot, published in The Automobile. By this time, My fondest memories will always be of Mike at the negotiated for the vehicle, he then extricated it from a the article award had been renamed to memorialize wheel in Arthur, fearlessly challenging city traffi c and loft, convinced its engine to run after a 20-year sleep Carl Benz. double-clutching his way through the Downton Road and drove it (most of) the eight miles to his home. In 1998, Mike was honored with our Friend of roundabout in Salisbury, Beaulieu-bound! This would eventually lead to many columns Automotive History award. He rose to the occasion —Kit Foster on the subject, variously headed “Buried Treasures,” by traveling to the US for the fi rst time, and attending “Worthy” and, for nearly 40 years, “Finds and Dis- the whole Hershey week with me, savoring the entire BBeaulieueaulieu BBound!ound! MMikeike WW-W-W ttopsops uupp AArthurrthur coveries” in The Automobile, the British magazine experience and staying on the fi eld in our vintage aatt SennybridgeSennybridge inin WalesWales fforor tthehe llongong drivedrive devoted to pre-1960 cars. Shasta camping trailer. He came away with enough ttoo Autojumble,Autojumble, SeptemberSeptember 2006.2006. The BSA’s story, however, was not complete. historic literature, purchased from the likes of John Within days of that article’s appearance, he received Conde and Bob Johnson, that he nearly had to pay letters from former police offi cers who recognized for excess baggage to get home. So captivated by the registration number as one of their own service, the Hershey experience was Mike, that he returned in fact the fi rst police cycle, and soon its entire his- each year through 2001. Among the most treasured tory was pieced together. No doubt this infl uenced of Mike’s Hershey-fi nds was a prestige Cole catalog his dedication to discovering and rehabilitating old bestowed on him by Leroy Cole. He was still chuffed vehicles, along the way learning their histories. The about it the last time I saw him, in 2019.

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