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On This Day in Automotive History April 18 April 17 « Go to » April 19 |
1927: In Morris et al v. Duby et al, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the right of the State to regulate maximum loads to be carried by motor vehicles within the State over roads constructed with both State and Federal funds. The case stemmed from an Oregon Highway Commission decision lowering weight limits for trucks to 16,500 lbs (from 22,000 lbs) because heavier loads damaged the roads.
1957: Administrator Bert Tallamy joins Senator Prescott Bush in an interview taped as a "Report from Washington" for use on radio and television stations in the Senator's State, Connecticut. Tallamy reports that the Interstate Highway Program is on schedule and that State laws will permit the States "to adequately compensate all people that they must acquire right-of-way from."
1972: At a meeting of Federal and State highway officials in Albany, New York, FHWA unveils the "Federally Coordinated Program of Research and Development in Highway Transportation," aimed at creating a safer, more efficient highway system that is better integrated with other transportation modes.
1998: The first episode of Initial D aired.
2011: The eighth generation Chevrolet Malibu was unveiled.
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| 18 April 1905 | MRS. COATS PRISONER IN CRAZY AUTOMOBILE After careening to and fro along Broadway endangering persons and vehicles for several blocks yesterday afternoon an unmanageable automobile containing Mrs. Alfred M. Coats dashed over the sidewalk at Nineteenth Street and Broadway and crashed through the plate-glass doors of W. & J. Sloane's big carpet store there. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times Topic: James Davis |