Howard Frederick Hobbs, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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(1902-1982) inventor
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About Howard Frederick Hobbs
- Howard Frederick Hobbs (21 September 1902 – 15 December 1982) was a South Australian inventor, a pioneer of automatic transmission for motor vehicles.
- In 1932 he moved to England, where he spent the rest of his life developing automatic gearboxes that failed to find a market.
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