biography
| name: |
Duesenberg, Fred(erick Samuel)
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pronunciation:
[doozenberg]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1932)
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| biography:
| Car manufacturer, born in Lippe, Germany. He went to Iowa, USA (1885), began manufacturing bicycles during the 1890s, and also raced bicycles and competed on them against horses. He patented an efficient gasoline motor (1899), improved and patented it again (1913) with his brother, August S Duesenberg, and established the Mason Motor Car Co (1905). The Duesenberg motor was used in racing cars which became known as Duesenbergs. Starting in 1914, his cars won three 500 mi victories in the Indianapolis Speedway. The Duesenberg Motor Corp was incorporated in 1917, with Fred as the chief engineer. He died from injuries sustained when his car overturned. |
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