1947 Automobile Book: William Knudsen by Norman Beasley

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Title: Knudsen / A Biography

A Biography of William Knudsen: American Automobile Executive

By Norman Beasley

1947 - First Edition

Signed and Inscribed by the Author, Norman Beasley

From the Collection of L. Scott Bailey, with his Stamp

(Publisher of Automobile Quarterly)

Published in New York & London: By Whittlesey House

McGraw - Hill Book Company, Inc.

Printed in the U.S.

397 Pages

Size: 9.25 x 6 inches

Above:  In the Original Cover

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Above:  Front Flyleaf is Signed and Inscribed by the Author, Norman Beasley

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Above:  Front Flyleaf is Signed and Inscribed by the Author, Norman Beasley

"For Hainley Resor" (Spelling?)

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Above:  Front Flyeaf is Stamped by L. Scott Bailey

From the Collection of L. Scott Bailey

(Publisher of Automobile Quarterly)

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Above:   Includes a Portrait of William Knudsen: American Automobile Executive

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A Biography of William S. Knudsen:

William Signius Knudsen (born 1879 – died 1948) was a leading automobile industry executive and a General in the U.S. Army.

Knudsen was a native of Denmark, where he was born with the name Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen. He emigrated to the U. S. in 1900. He worked for the John R. Keim Company of Buffalo, New York, when the Ford Motor Company bought the company in 1911.

Knudsen then worked for Ford until 1921. He then worked for General Motors, and was an expert on mass production. Knudsen was president of the Chevrolet Division of General Motors from 1924 to 1937.  He was president of General Motors from 1937 to 1940.

In 1942, Knudsen was commissioned a Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army, and worked as a consultant for the War Department.  Knudsen was the father of Semon Knudsen / Bunkie Knudsen who became a prominent automobile industry executive.

Book is from the Collection of L. Scott Bailey (Publisher of Automobile Quarterly)

L. Scott Bailey was the founding editor and publisher of Automobile Quarterly, which began in 1962. He described the magazine as "The Connoisseur's Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow".

L. Scott Baily's publishing office was first in New York, before relocating to Kutztown, Pennsylvania, in Berks County, in 1963. There the magazine was operated as Automobile Quarterly, Inc., and later as a subsidiary of The Kutztown Publishing Company, Inc. In 2000, they became part of Automobile Heritage Publishing & Communications, LLC, and relocated to New Albion, Indiana.

L. Scott Baily was a classic car collector. His collection included a Duryea and a Carrozzeria Bertone Ford Mustang,

Written by Norman Beasley:

Norman Beasley was an advertising executive with the Miller and Beasley Advertising Company in Detroit, Michigan.  He was born in Grosse Ille, Michigan, in 1887, the son of Joseph Beasley and Letitia Monahan Beasley of Canada.

Beasley studied in Picton, Ontario, in Lansing, Michigan, and at the Detroit College of Law. He then worked as an editor for the Detroit Journal.

He also authored the book Made in Detroit, and the book Freighter of Fortune, about commerce on the Great Lakes.  He also wrote Men, Money, and Motors with Theodore F. MacManus.

Condition:  Very Nice Condition.    No library or institution markings.  Pages and cover are securely attached with no separations to endpapers' gutters.  Pages are mostly clean, with no foxing, although the top margin of  numerous pages has a very-faint stain across part of the top margin, not entering the text. The cover's spine ends and fore-corners are lightly rubbed. The foot of the cover's spine has a small (half-inch) white label (blank, with no writing or text), presumedly placed there by L. Scott Bailey.

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