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William Kissam Vanderbilt II (October 26, 1878 – January 8, 1944) was an American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.
William Kissam Vanderbilt II (born on October 26, 1878) Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (born on July 6, 1884) Alva later coerced Consuelo into marrying Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough on November 6, 1895. [7]
1. Okt. 2014 · McFarland, Oct 1, 2014 - Social Science - 264 pages. The Vanderbilts were one of the great American families of the industrial era. This book explores the life of one of its lesser-known scions of...
9. Okt. 2008 · William K. Vanderbilt II. Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. So he created a toll road for high-speed automobile travel. It was built of reinforced concrete, had banked turns, guard rails...
- Die ersten Rennen der Geschichte. Großen Einfluss auf die Rennwelt hatte James Gordon Bennett Jr., Eigentümer der Zeitung New York Herald und des Herald Tribune, mit seinem Gordon Bennet Cup in Europa.
- Der erste Grand Prix. Im Juni 1906 trug der Automobile Club of France (CAF) über zwei Tage das erste Rennen aus, dass unter dem Namen Grand Prix geführt wurde.
- Die Strecken nehmen Form an. Viele der Rennen wurden auf vorübergehend geschlossenen Abschnitten öffentlicher Straßen und nicht auf spezifisch für Rennen gebaute Strecken abgehalten, wie das heute der Fall ist.
- Formula Libre. Kurz vor dem ersten Weltkrieg änderte sich das aber. Die einzelnen Grands Prixs begannen damit, gemeinsame Regeln zu finden, was zunächst vor allem die Größe und das Gewicht des Motors betraf.
23. Sept. 2018 · Born in 1878, William Kissam Vanderbilt II was the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the fabled Commodore, who had first built the family's staggering fortune through steamship and railroad lines. Willie K. did his turn as a rail executive, too, serving for a time as president of the New York Central. He married a woman whose ...
William K. Vanderbilt II – known to family and friends as Willie K. – loved the oceans and the natural world. In his seagoing global travels, he collected fish and other marine life, birds, invertebrates and cultural artifacts for the personal museum he planned to build on his Long Island estate.
