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William Bushnell Stout (* 16. März 1880 in Quincy, Illinois; † 20. März 1956) in Phoenix, Arizona) war ein Ingenieur, LKW-, PKW- und Flugzeugkonstrukteur, Unternehmer, Journalist, und Manager bei Packard und Ford. Stout gründete das erste Luftfahrtmagazin in den USA.
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William Stout war eines von zwei Kindern methodistischer Eltern; seine Zwillingsschwester verstarb jedoch kurz nach der Geburt und William wuchs als Einzelkind auf. Er war kränklich und litt an einer starken Lichtempfindlichkeit. sia
Er absolvierte die Mechanic Arts High School in St. Paul (Minnesota). Während seiner Schulzeit baute er mechanische Modelle, darunter 1898 eines der ersten funktionierenden Flugzeugmodelle in den USA. sia
Es folgte ein Ingenieurstudium an der Hamline University ebenfalls in St. Paul. 1906 heiratete er Alma Raymond. Von 1907 bis 1912 war er Chefingenieur der Schurmeir Motor Truck Company. Es folgte eine Tätigkeit als Automobil- und Luftfahrtredaktor der Chicago Tribune. Im gleichen Jahr 1912 gründete das erste Luftfahrtmagazin in den USA, Aerial Age. Daneben schrieb er unter dem Pseudonym Jack Knieff für die Minneapolis Times.
Automotive career[edit]
Stout Scarab In 1914, Stout became Chief Engineer of the Scripps-Booth Automobile Company. His "Cyclecar" had caught the attention of Alvan MacCauley who subsequently brought Stout to Packard Motors in Detroit. He had become General Sales Manager of the Packard Motor Car Company and in 1916, when they started an aviation division, they asked Stout to become its first Chief Engineer. In 1919 he started the Stout Engineering Company in Dearborn, Michigan, complete with a research section and later built the prototype Stout Scarab car in 1932. In 1934 he founded the Stout Motor Car Company.[2] The "beetle-like" Scarab featured an all-aluminum tubular airframe covered with aluminum skin, with the engine compartment at the rear, a sealed storage compartment in front of a passenger compartment with reclining aircraft-type seats. The front or nose of the vehicle contained the spare tire. Only nine Scarabs were ever built and although advanced, the public never appreciated the innovative features of the vehicles.
In the mid-1930s, Stout in co-operation with L.B. Kalb of Continental Motors, a major manufacture of lightweight air cooled aircraft engines, and did some extensive research and pre-production development into rear rear engine drive automobiles which were powered by aircraft engines. Stout even commissioned the well known Dutch auto designer John Tjaarda to design some streamlined car bodies, although none of the car designs ever reached production.[3]
In the last years of World War II, Stout in co-operation with Owen-Corning, began what was called Project Y to built a one-off car for evaluation, to test some ideas like a frame-less fiberglass body, belt drive rear wheel drive, a suspension which kept the vehicle from leaning into turns by adjusting the suspension using compressed air and push button electric doors. When the vehicle was made public in 1946, Stout picked the name Forty-Six for that year. Some firms considered producing the Forty-Six, but as Stout stated he doubt there would be much of a market for a $10,000 dollar car, the estimated price if it had been mass-produced.[4]Hacker, G.[5]
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WILLIAM STOUT
Born at Quincy IL --- 1889. Died at Phoenix AZ March 20, 1956 William Bushnell Stout, 76, pioneer automotive and aviation inventor, He was prominent in Detroit from 1914 until he moved to Phoenix several years ago. Stout designed the classic Ford tri-motor plane; built the first all-metal plane for the Navy, built the first commercial monoplane, operated the first exclusive passenger air service in 1926, and was active in cicic life in Detroit. The mop-haired inventor, who good-naturedly said he frequently had been called a "screwball" because of his advanced engineering ideas, adapted aircraft principles to auto motive design in the construction of his "Scarab" car, a rear-engine, plastic-bodied vehicle. He frequently said a combination automobile-airplane would become commonplace. Stout was an engineering graduate of the University of Minnesota. He had been a newspaper columnist, editor of automotive magazines and chief engineer for a Detroit motorcar manufacturing company. His accomplishments included development of small pancake engines, folding portable houses, a pusher-type plane and numerous other items. He was an accomplished pianist and a pen and ink artist. He was a former president of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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- aerofiles.com: William Bushnell Stout (Englisch) (abgerufen am 7. Januar 2015)
- theoldmotor.com: Stout Scarab (Englisch) (abgerufen am 7. Januar 2015)
- hemmings.com: Stout Scarab (Englisch) (abgerufen am 7. Januar 2015)
- hemmings.com: SIA Flashback: The Prophet, 1935 Stout Scarab (Englisch) (abgerufen am 7. Januar 2015)
- theoldmotor.com: Stout Metal Airplane Company (Englisch) (abgerufen am 7. Januar 2015)
- www.conceptcarz.com: Stout Scarab (Englisch) (abgerufen am 7. Januar 2015)