Louis Zborowski English Race Car Driver And Engineer Born 1895 - October 19 in History | This Day Story

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October 19, 1924

Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer (born 1895)

Louis Zborowski

Louis Vorow Zborowski was a British racing driver and automobile engineer, best known for creating a series of aero-engined racing cars known as the "Chitty-Bang-Bangs", which provided the inspiration for Ian Fleming's children's story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and culminated in the "Higham Special" which, much modified in the hands of John Godfrey Parry Thomas, broke the World Land Speed Record 18 months after the death of its creator.

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