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March / April 2020 Issue SAHJournal ISSUE 303 MARCH / APRIL 2020 $5.00 US Contents 3 PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE SAHJournal 4 DUESENBERG DAYS 7 ART, ARCHITECTURE AND THE AUTOMOBILE ISSUE 303 • MARCH/APRIL 2020 A CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOBILE HISTORY THE SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE HISTORIANS, INC. 10 BOOK REVIEWS An Affiliate of the American Historical Association Cancellation of the SAH Billboard Annual Meeting of Members Announcing the SAH Forum: & Gala Awards Banquet: The This internet platform is a way for members annual meeting and gala awards banquet in to post messages (text and images) to which October this year has been cancelled due Officers others could see, enjoy, and reply. It is also to the COVID-19 epidemic, following the H. Donald Capps President a method to post questions and requests. cancellation of the AACA Eastern Division Robert G. Barr Vice President Robert Casey Secretary What’s more, the reach of the platform ex- National Fall Meet (“Hershey”). Earlier Rubén L. Verdés Treasurer tends beyond the SAH membership—since this year the annual history conference was it’s a dedicated forum within the AACA site. cancelled as well for the same reason. There Board of Directors Louis F. Fourie (ex-officio) ∆ Please take a moment to visit the forum, is every expectation that the event will come Bob Elton † go to https://forums.aaca.org/ and scroll back for October 2021. Please go to the SAH Kevin Kirbitz # down just past the first AACA subjects and website (autohistory.org) to monitor future Carla R. Lesh † you will find a dedicated forum named developments. Chris Lezotte ∆ The Society of Automotive Historians John A. Marino # Casey Maxon ∆ then click on that forum and you’ll see the Wanted: Information on the White John Mohr # posts that are already there. You could read Steam Car. I am writing a book on White Dean Nelson † them, but to reply or start a new post you Steamers and am seeking information. Please Steve Purdy ∆ just sign up on the forum’s home page (at the contact Don Hoke at:[email protected] Terms through October (#) 2020, (†) 2021, and (∆) 2022 address above). The AACA forum contains Editor a myriad of forums including forums for Wanted: Contributors! The SAH Jour- Rubén L. Verdés other entities (e.g., The Classic Car Club of nal invites contributors for articles and book 7491 N. Federal Hwy., Ste. C5337 America has its forum there too). According- reviews. With your help, we can continue Boca Raton, FL 33487-1625 USA [email protected] ly, the SAH will have its own forum within to feature a steady and consistent stream of [email protected] a community of automotive enthusiasts that material advancing the record of automotive tel: +1.561.866.5010 will help foster a great level of interaction to history. Please contact the editor directly. promote automotive history. Thank you! Publications Committee Thomas S. Jakups, Chair Louis F. Fourie Front cover: This is the 1921 Duesenberg 183 Grand Prix Race Car, one of the cars that raced in the 1921 French Grand Prix, which is on display at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum Christopher G. Foster in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For more information, visit the car's page at the museum’s site: John Heitmann simeonemuseum.org/collection/1921-duesenberg-183-grand-prix-race-car/ Donald J. Keefe The image is by automotive photographer extraordinaire Michael Furman, and it forms part of the Rubén L. Verdés array of photos he contributed to an excellent book by Frederick A. Simeone (2013 SAH “Friend Steve Wilson of Automotive History” award recipient), The Spirit of Competition: The Simeone Foundation SAH Journal (ISSN 1057–1973) Automotive Museum. For more on the photographer, visit: michaelfurman.com. The photo appears courtesy of Mr. Simeone and Mr. Furman. is published six times a year by The Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. Back cover: This Duesenberg ad appeared in the August 1930 edition of Country Life (p. 31). It has Subscription is by membership in the Society. been frequently pointed out that there were ads that promoted the Model J that never showed the car and would simply have a tagline like “She drives a Duesenberg”—selling the image. Here Membership dues are $50 per year ($60 is a reminder that they also used straightforward and conventional automotive advertising for, per year outside North America & Mexico); as it says on the ad, “The World’s Finest Motor Car.” digital membership dues are $20. Dues and changes of address go to: Submission Deadlines: Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. Deadline: 12/1 2/1 4/1 6/1 8/1 10/1 c/o Cornerstone Registration Ltd. Issue: Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec P.O. Box 1715 Mailed: 1/31 3/31 5/31 7/31 9/30 11/30 Maple Grove, MN 55311-6715 USA Note: the SAH Journal is a bimonthly publication (printed 6 times a year) and there is ©2020 a two-month horizon for submitted material before it is mailed (e.g., material sub- The Society of Automotive Historians, Inc. mitted by February 1st appears in the Mar/Apr issue and is mailed on or before 3/31.) www.autohistory.org All letters, manuscripts, and advertisement submissions and inquiries go to the editor. Join, renew and more right on-line! 2 SAH Journal No. 303 • March / April 2020 Drive History Conference was going to be a great event. Everyone involved had poured PPresident’sresident’s PPerspectiveerspective their heart and soul into the event. Needless to say, we were all absolutely crushed when In another item related to the AHA, its faced with the decision to cancel the event. president, Dr. Norm Darwin, is currently That said, Diane and the rest of us are al- in the midst of an effort to ensure that the ready working on the 2021 conference and archival records of GM-Holden, which is think that it will be even better than what now ending its many decades as it ceases we had planned for this year’s event. producing right-hand drive automobiles, Which brings me to what I once will be preserved in Australia. At the thought was among those occurrences sim- moment, this effort by Norm and the AHA ply considered to be “merely impossible” or seems to be bearing fruit. In addition, there “very highly unlikely”: the cancellation of is a parallel effort to add the GM-Holden the October 2020 Eastern Division National Head Offi ce, the Social Centre, and the Fall Meet of the Antique Automobile Club Technical Centre buildings in Fisherman’s of America (AACA) in Hershey, Pennsyl- Bend to the Heritage Victoria listing. This is vania. After being held through troubled a very important effort and I urge everyone years—everything from the Cuban Missile to support the AHA and Norm’s efforts to Crisis to the Three Mile Island partial reactor make this happen. meltdown, along with a few hurricanes and The Third European Conference for other weather challenges—with the CO- Automotive History is scheduled for the VID-19 pandemic, alas, the AACA fi nally autumn of 2021. The host will be the met its match. Love it or merely seriously lthough most of the conferences sched- Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Torino, like it, the Fall Nationals at Hershey holds a A uled for this year have been either can- Italy. Details will be forthcoming. This is special place in the traditions of the Society celed outright or postponed until much later, another wonderful conference that deserves of Automotive Historians: Hershey being the the Automotive Historians Australia (AHA) everyone’s support and, especially, their par- site of the fi rst meeting of the SAH in 1969. will be conducting a one-day symposium ticipation if at all possible. We need to offer It was a decision that was made with much on October 31st at Castlemaine, which is our sincere thanks to the several automotive reluctance, but one that had to be made. just north of Melbourne. The theme of the history organizations making this conference One unfortunate consequence of the symposium is Regional Automotive Futures possible. I strongly encourage everyone who AACA’s decision to cancel the Fall Nationals and the event will be held at the Autoplex can to propose paper presentations, panels or at Hershey is that we will not be having our Castlemaine. Unlike the previous AHA con- discussion ideas for this excellent conference. annual awards dinner at the Hershey Coun- ferences, this year’s symposium will consist Once again, I wish to shamelessly plug try Club. This is regrettable, of course, but of a series of panels and several discussions the “Fourth and a Half” International Drive unavoidable. I am certain that John Marino, rather than the usual presentation of indi- History Conference that will be held April who has been the sparkplug and mastermind vidual papers. I strongly encourage support- 22 to 24, 2021, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. behind our annual award dinners for some ing this wonderful endeavor of the AHA. This is a joint venture by the Historic Vehicle years now, will make the 2021 event very It is a crackerjack organization, hosting a Association (HVA) and the SAH. I cannot special. true go-to international automotive history praise Diane Parker, the vice-president of To paraphrase what Gianni Cancellieri conference. It is defi nitely worth putting on the HVA, and her hearty team at Allentown always reminded me: “Happy automotive your listing of conferences to attend, both highly or loudly enough. There was every in- history research!” this year’s and those in the future.
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