SIA Flashback – The Man Who Made It Work

Francis W. Davis

Can you imagine a car without power steering today, or at any time in the last 30 years? Impossible. And unlike many other modern automotive innovations, the inclusion of power steering in automobiles can more or less be traced back to one man, Francis W. Davis, who for a span of four decades made it his life’s goal to get power steering to work in an automobile. Maurice Hendry related Davis’s story is SIA #49, February 1979.