Person
Bandt, Lewis Thornett (1910 - 1987)
- Born
- 1910
- Died
- 1987
- Occupation
- Automotive engineer
Summary
Lewis Bandt, a long standing employee of the Ford Motor Company, was the first person to design the "ute". The utility was designed in 1933 while he was working at Ford's Geelong plant. Sadly he was killed in a road accident while driving his fully restored 1933 coupe utility to the filming of a documentary about the development of the utility.
Archival resources
State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
- Lewis Thornett Bandt - Records, 1910 - 1987, MS 11178; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
Published resources
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20737540. Details
- 'Bandt, Louis Thornett (19100226-19870318)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470169. Details
Theses
- Darwin, Norman Arthur, 'Early Australian automotive design 1895 - 1953', PhD thesis, RMIT University, 2018, 385 pp. http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/eserv/rmit:162422/Darwin.pdf. Appendix II - biographies p.332. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_b.html. Details
- Veltri, Damian, 'Bandt, Louis (Lewis) Thornett (1910-1987), Motor Vehicle Engineer and Designer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 55-56. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bandt-louis-thornett-lewis-12169. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 28 February 2018
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