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Robert Allen Boyer (September 30, 1909 – November 11, 1989) [1] was an American chemist employed by Henry Ford who was proficient at inventing ways to convert soybeans into paints and plastic parts used on Ford automobiles. He is also the inventor of the world's first plant protein fiber.
World's first plastic car body Plastic car frame patent 2,269,452 (January 13, 1942) [1] Soybean car frame patent, Fig. 2. The soybean car was a concept car built with agricultural plastic. The New York Times in 1941 states the car body and fenders were made from a strong material derived from soy beans, wheat and corn. [2]
General Motors was the first company in the industry to begin franchising in 1893. In 1909, Western Auto became the first retailer of aftermarket automotive parts in the United States. [5] In 1928, Genuine Parts Company as a distributor of automotive replacement parts, industrial parts and consumer supplies. Its largest component is NAPA Auto ...
The Ford Motor Company used soybeans in such parts as gearshift knobs and horn buttons, and hemp for the body of the car. The automobile was designed to run on hemp diesel. Ford Motor Company accessed these innovations via the discovery and ingenuity of George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Scientist and Father of Chemurgy.
See List of Charles Whitman's victims for Robert Hamilton Boyer, professor killed at The University of Texas in 1966; Robert Boyer (artist) (1948–2004), Canadian artist of aboriginal heritage; Robert Boyer (chemist) (1909–1989), chemist employed by Henry Ford; Robert James Boyer (1913–2005), former politician in Ontario, Canada
The first electric golf cart was custom-made in 1932, but did not gain widespread acceptance. [3] In the 1930s until the 1950s the most widespread use of golf carts was for those with disabilities who could not walk far. [4] By the mid-1950s the golf cart had gained wide acceptance with US golfers. [5]
See also Autoette (1910 automobile).. The Autoette was an electric microcar manufactured from the late 1930s to the 1970s. The two-seat, three-wheeled microcar was steered by tiller and powered by specially made batteries from Trojan Battery Co., [1] with motive power provided by a converted 24-volt Dodge 1½ hp. electric starter motor and later a proprietary motor built for Autoette. [2]
When VWoA began manufacturing in the unfinished Chrysler plant, it became the first foreign automobile company to build cars in the US since Rolls-Royce manufactured cars in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1921 to 1931. [2] [3] [4] Chrysler had called the facility the New Stanton plant; Volkswagen changed the name to Westmoreland. [5]