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On This Day in Automotive History: June 10

On This Day in Automotive History
June 10

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Birthdays: Frank Fox (1877), Toland Nicholson (1895), Jack Foley (1901), Mike Salay (1909), Steve Yanigan (1910), Ben Benz (1914), Red Hamilton (1926), Ermon Rush (1926), Cotton Wallace (1930), Sonny Bonnett (1933), Jim Hemmings (1934), Vic Elford (1935), Peter Ryan (1940), David Walker (1941), R.J. Valentine (1944), Larry Utsman (1947), Paul Knapfield (1949), Hans Hugenholtz (1950), Rick Baldwin (1955), Dave Fuge (1955), Ian Mitchell (1955), Peter Van Merksteijn (1956), Roland Isaacs (1957), Ricky Otts (1957), Mike Dowson (1960), Tim Fulford (1963), Steve Darne (1964), Roger Mears Jr. (1964), Derek Clark (1965), Ian Moncrieff (1975), Olivier Porta (1975), Jill George (1978), Levi Jones (1982), Adrien de Leener (1989), Scott McLaughlin (1993), Austin Rettig (1994), Nick Sanchez (2001)

1925: C.H. Purcell, Bureau of Public Roads' District 3 Engineer in Portland, OR, opens bids for several projects in the Pacific Northwest, the most important of which is the Transmountain Road (Going-to-the-Sun Road) in Glacier National Park, MT. The low bid of $869,145 for 12.4 miles of construction is submitted by Williams and Douglas of Tacoma, WA. The idea for the highway came from NPS founder and Director Stephen T. Mather.

1947: PRA holds the first meeting of the Board of Urban Consultants. The 2-day meeting covers questions related to the 1944 Federal-Aid Highway Act, the status of urban projects, intergovernmental cooperation, and urban planning problems.

1949: Bureau of Public Roads issues instructions and forms for the Board of County Engineer Consultants to study local highway administration as part of a larger Bureau of Public Roads study, requested May 27 by the Senate Committee on Public Works, on the economic, engineering, financial, and administrative phases of the local rural road problem. The report is submitted in January 1950.

1994: The film Speed was released.

2009: The sale of substantially all of Chrysler's assets to "New Chrysler", organized as Chrysler Group LLC, was completed.

2013: The first episode of Street Outlaws aired.