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Lewis, William Howard Horatio (1868 - 1939)

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Born: 11 March 1868 Willenhall, Staffordshire, England. Died: 4 October 1939 Toorak, Victoria, Australia.

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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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/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003721. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 1 August 2006

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