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Harry Arminius Miller (December 9, 1875 - May 3, 1943) was an influential and famous American race car builder, most active in the 1920s and 1930s. In the opinion of noted American racing history Griffith Borgeson, Miller was the greatest creative figure in the history of the American racing car. 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ...
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Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. // Events and trends Technology John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as Tommy gun John Logie Baird invents the first working television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly...
// Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...
Cars built by Miller won the Indianapolis 500 nine times; three more instances were won by his engines running in other chassis. Miller cars accounted for no less than 83% of the Indy 500 fields between 1923 and 1928! Indianapolis 500, 1994 The Indianapolis 500 Mile Race, frequently shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500, is an American race for open-wheel automobiles held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. ...
1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
If Offenhauser engines, a re-badged Miller derivative, and the dominant engine at the Indy 500 and on the Champ car circuit in the 1950s and 1960s (although it kept winning until the 1970s) are added, the number of wins at Indianapolis alone increases by twenty-eight, with over two hundred more elsewhere. It was not until 1981 that an Indy 500 start did not feature a single Miller-derived engine... Offenhauser was a Formula One engine manufacturer from 1950 through 1960 for the Indianapolis 500. ...
Nigel Mansell racing in a Champcar in 1993 Champ Car, a shortened form of Championship Car, has been the name for a class of cars used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades. ...
Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the...
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1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Miller started off running a race car shop that built and repaired race cars. After repairing the 1913 Peugeot Grand Prix car which was the state of the art at the time, Miller and his employee Fred Offenhauser designed the similar Miller racing engine. After Miller went bankrupt, Offenhauser purchased the shop and continued development of the engine as the Offenhauser or "Offy" engine, which continued to dominate Indianapolis for decades. 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
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Fred Offenhauser (1888-1973), was an automotive engineer and mechanic who designed the Offenhauser racing engine, nicknamed the Offy, which dominated competition in the Indianapolis 500 race for decades. ...
Further reading - Mark L. Dees, The Miller Dynasty: A Technical History of the Work of Harry A. Miller, His Associates, and His Successors (Barnes, Scarsdale, 1981; second edition Hippodrome, Moor Park, 1994) This is the definitive work on Miller, but was published in limited editions, and may be hard to find
- Griffith Borgeson, Miller (Motorbooks International, Osceola, 1993)
- Griffith Borgeson, The Last Great Miller: The Four-Wheel-Drive Indy Car (SAE, Warrendale, 2000)
- Griffith Borgeson, The Golden Age of the American Racing Car (Bonanza, New York, 1966; second edition SAE, Warrendale, 1998)
The Society of Automotive Engineers is a professional organisation and standards body for the engineering of powered vehicles of all kinds - cars, trucks, boats, aircraft and more. ...
The Society of Automotive Engineers is a professional organisation and standards body for the engineering of powered vehicles of all kinds - cars, trucks, boats, aircraft and more. ...
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