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SAH Business Were Accepted As Corrected Without According to the Bylaws, We Must Dissent to State That Thomas Jakups Conduct the Elections in This Manner Journal The Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. Issue 254 Electronic January - February 2012 Z-line Style, Page 12. Inside Date Reminders President’s Message 3 Bugatti’s 4WD Experiment 6 March 21, 2012 Automotive History Conference Obituary 3 Fall Meeting Minutes 7 Hotel Reservation at group rate. Awards Nominations 4 Book & Media Reviews 11 April 1, 2012 Automotive History Conference Letters 5 The Bugattis of Jean de Dobbeleer Regular Registration. Pebble Road Race DVD Registration and reservations SAH News 5 at www.autohistory.org or see conference brochure. Cover Vehicle: 1965 Mercury Monterey www.autohistory.org Breezeway sedan, illustration: Ford publicity. January - February 2012 Journal The Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. Issue 254 January - February 2012 Offi cers SAH Annual Awards J. Douglas Leighton President Benz Award, Chair: Don Keefe, [email protected] John Heitmann Vice President The Carl Benz Award is presented each year for the best article published in the previous calendar year. SAH Robert R. Ebert Secretary Awards of Distinction are awarded for exemplary articles not receiving the Benz Award. Patrick D. Bisson Treasurer 2011 Terry V. Boyce, “1951 Buick XP-300: Mr. Chayne Builds His Dream Car,”in Collectible Automobile 2010 John L. Baeke, M.D, “The Lebarons: Heir Apparent to the Throne,” in The Reunion Board of Directors 2009 Jim Chase, “Packard and Winton: The Transcontinental Rivalry,” in The Packard Cormorant Through October 2012 Thomas S. Jakups, Leslie Kendall, Bradley Award, Chair: Judith Endelman, [email protected] Steve Wilson The James J. Bradley Distinguished Service Award is presented to deserving archives and libraries for exemplary efforts in preserving motor vehicle resource materials. Through October 2013 2011 Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, Coventry, UK Judith E. Endelman, Paul N. Lashbrook, 2010 Automotive Research Library of the Horseless Carriage Foundation, La Mesa, California, USA Stanton A. Lyman, 2009 Gilmore Car Museum, Hickory Corners, Michigan, USA Susan S. Davis, ex-offi cio Brigham Award, Chair: Jack Juratovic, 712 Novak Lane, Big Rapids MI 49307 Through October 2014 The Brigham Award is presented for magazines published in the previous calendar year. John A. Marino, Mark Patrick, 2011 The Packard Cormorant, published by Packard Automobile Classics, Stuart Blond, Editor. James K. Wagner 2010 Antique Automobile, published by Antique Automobile Club of America. Editor-in-chief/design director SAH Journal West Peterson Allan G. Y. Meyer, Editor, Adv. Mgr. 2009 Collectible Automobile, published by Publications International, Ltd. John Biel, editor-in-chief P.O. Box 1948 Vashon, WA 98070-1948 USA Cugnot Award, English, Chair: Doug Leighton, [email protected] [email protected] The Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award is presented each year for the best book published in the previous [email protected] calendar year. SAH Awards of Distinction are awarded for exemplary books not receiving the Cugnot Award. 2011 Joel E. Finn, Carribean Capers: The Cuban Grand Prix Road Races of 1957, 1958, and 1960 Associate Editor 2010 Charles K. Hyde, Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson and American Motors Rubén L. Verdés 2009 Karl Ludvigsen, Ferdinand Porsche, Genesis of Genius: Road, Racing and Aviation Innovation, 1900-1933 Publications Committee Thomas S. Jakups, Chair Cugnot Award, Non-English, Chair: Bill Kreiner, [email protected] Christopher G. Foster The Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award, Non-English, is presented each year for the best book published in a D. David Duricy, Donald J. Keefe language other than English the previous calendar year. SAH Awards of Distinction are awarded for exemplary Steve Wilson, Rubén L. Verdés, books not receiving the Cugnot Award. Pat Chappell, Mark Patrick, Allan Meyer 2011 Claude Rouxel and Laurent Friry, Gotha de l’Automobile Française 2010 Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges, Fiat en Grand Prix, 1920-1930 SAH Journal (ISSN 1057–1973) Hans-Jürgen Schneider and Halwart Schrader, Legende: BMW 02 is published six times a year by the 2009 Manuel Lage, 1,000,000: Un Millón de Camiones y Buses Españoles Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. Friend of Automotive History, Chair: Darwyn Lumley, [email protected] Subscription is by membership Recognition to an individual who has made a particular personal contribution to automotive history. in the Society. 2011 Kit Foster Membership dues are $40 per year. 2010 Miles C. Collier 2009 G. Marshall Naul Send dues, membership inquiries and changes of address to: Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. Ingersoll Award, Chair: Thomas Jakups, [email protected] Cornerstone Registration Ltd. The E. P. Ingersoll Award is given for the best presentation of automotive history in other than print media. P.O. Box 1715 2011 Racemaker Press, O’Keefe Winners Database, published online. 2010 Mark Theobald, Coachbuilt.com Maple Grove, MN 55311-6715 USA 2009 Michael Hamm, producer, director/writer; Kerrie Long, producer “The Greatest Auto Race on Earth” ©2012 The Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. Scharchburg Award, Chair: John Heitmann, [email protected] Presented to an undergraduate or graduate level student for the best research paper in the fi eld of automotive Find the Society of Automotive Historians history. on the web at www.autohistory.org. 2011 Andrew Jennings Mabon, “The Automobile, the Interstate, and Suburbanites” 2009 Ted R. Mitchell, “Sit-Down Women: Gender and the 1936-7 General Motors Strike in Flint, Michigan” 2008 Peter S. Cajka, “Consumers, Cadillacs, and Civil Rights: The Social and Cultural Impact of the Automobile Copy Deadline for Journal 255 in Ebony, 1945-1965” March 31, 2012 A complete history of award winners may be found at: www.autohistory.org/awards.html 2 SAH Journal No. 254 Electronic Edition President’s Message Obituary Tony was a member of many motor- ing clubs and of the Guild of Motoring The fi rst few months of the new year are Tony Beadle 1943 – 2012 Writers, while his membership of the an exciting time for those of us involved Federation of British Historic Vehicle in automotive history. The great auto Tony was a motoring enthusiast Clubs, where he served on the Board shows follow one after another, with from an early age. He worked as a from 2003 to 2007, typifi ed his attitude their new product launches and 21st cen- draughtsman and project engineer of not just belonging to organizations tury versions of “dream cars.” Detroit has but his automotive interests soon but also being active within them. The just concluded and Chicago and Toronto came to the fore and he travelled very successful “Drive It Day” which are in full swing. This year’s exhibitions widely in pursuit of what was to takes place each April under the aus- demonstrate the remarkable rise of Kia soon become his work, commenc- pices of the Federation – designed to and Hyundai and the equally remarkable ing initially with freelance writing on encourage as many owners of older corporate rebound of General Motors. motoring topics in 1971. Although vehicles as possible to exercise them For those of us with fond memories of perhaps best known as the original on the roads for the enlightenment of the sports car culture of the 1950s, the and then long-time editor of Tri- the general public – was instigated by Toronto show features a tribute to Tri- umph World, his scope was broad Tony. umph. and diverse. He joined the SAH 20 years ago, I hope that members will not object to a Tony’s interests embraced topics becoming both Newsletter editor and personal note in this column related to such as the three-wheeled, micro Secretary of the UK Chapter in 1998, that Triumph retro-display. When I fi rst and electric vehicles, American cars positions which he held for four years. began to teach, I acquired a much-used from the independent makers, UK He was also one of those responsible 1962 TR4. Parked outside my parents’ drag racing, the cars built in his for the UK Chapter becoming the Soci- house, it attracted the attention of an home area (the west London fringe), ety of Automotive Historians in Britain older neighbor who was a veteran of ‘Bedmobile’ motor caravans, and, in 2000. He returned to the Newsletter the western front in World War I. Peer- at the time of his passing he was editor’s seat at the beginning of 2008, ing at the nameplate, he exclaimed “It’s unravelling the motoring activities of renamed the quarterly publication the a Triumph,” and then went on to say two quite separate individuals with SAHB Times, and over the course of that he had been a motorcycle dispatch the surname Morriss who were ac- producing the next 16 issues took it rider for most of the war. He had ridden tive in the pioneer days of motoring; from a slim almost solo effort to one Triumphs almost exclusively, destroying one of whom was motor engineer that with its innovative ideas drew over half a dozen of them because of the to King Edward VII, and the other contributions from a wide range of the slippery nature of high-crowned French who tried to revive British steam car membership, and required double the roads. My TR4 opened old memories manufacture in 1907-8. number of pages of his original ver- for my neighbor and taught me a great sion. deal about front-line conditions in France SAH members are invited to join through the words of an eyewitness. Tony was one of the “good guys” and the Classic Car Club of America his presence will be greatly missed, I suspect that many of us could share (CCCA) not only by the SAHB membership but similar stories from different contexts. founded in 1952 to promote the also in the wider motoring world. He Automobiles carry all sorts of associa- preservation and restoration of leaves a wife, son and daughter-in-law, tions, and the stories attached to them distinctive motorcars built between to whom we extend our sympathies.
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