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Hemmings Motor News Blog

Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Francis W. Davis: Power Steering Pioneer

Posted July 27, 2009 3:31 PM by dstrohl

Can you imagine a car without power steering today, or at any time in the last 30 years? Impossible. And unlike many other modern automotive innovations, the inclusion of power steering in automobiles can more or less be traced back to one man, Francis W. Davis, who for a span of four decades made it his life's goal to get power steering to work in an automobile. Maurice Hendry related Davis's story is SIA #49, February 1979.

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