Person
Lewis, William Howard Horatio (1868 - 1939)
- Born
- 11 March 1868
Willenhall, Staffordshire, England - Died
- 4 October 1939
Toorak, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Motor manufacturer
Summary
William Howard H. Lewis ran a bicycle business in Melbourne from about 1890 to 1897. He then joined Harley Tarrant and together they made the first workable petrol-driven car in Australia in 1901. Tarrant's became a proprietary company in 1907, with Lewis as managing director and as chairman of directors from 1920.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Smith, Ann G., 'Lewis, William Howard Horatio (1868-1939), motor manufacturer and dealer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 96-97. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lewis-william-howard-horatio-7190. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539428. Details
- 'Lewis, William Howard Horatio (1868-1939)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467664. 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_l.html. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 1 August 2006
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