Arthur Chevrolet
Brother of Louis Chevrolet
Nationality: Switzerland later United States
Born: April 25, 1884 La Chaux-de-Fonds Neuchatel, Switzerland
Died: April 16, 1946 St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana 32 Years
The second of three famous Swiss race car driving brothers, Arthur became a two-time veteran of the Indianapolis 500. Arthur also assisted older brother Louis in designing automobiles. He and Louis left the automobile business in 1929 to form the Chevrolet Brothers Aircraft Company with a new engine design to their credit. Unfortunately they later lost the business to Glenn Martin. Sadly, much of Arthur's subsequent life was beset by a sequence of unhappy occurrences. After he took his life at his home in Louisiana, he was returned to Indianapolis. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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