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...Inventors are George D. Besler, 31, and his brother William J., 29, sons of Board Chairman George William Besler of Central Railroad of New Jersey. Associated with them was their Princeton classmate (class of 1926) Clement Bates Ellery Harts, son of Brigadier-General null Wright Harts, onetime military attache of the U. S. Embassy in Paris...
...youngsters at Hun School in Princeton, N. J. the Besler boys were usually mistaken for twins. (Now William is dark, slender; George is blond, stocky, has a mustache.) As Princeton undergraduates they played polo, learned to fly, owned planes. As graduates they became steam-engine conscious, as are all Beslers because of the family's substantial interest in Davenport Locomotive Works. They went to California and got control of Doble Steam Motor Corp., which had been in difficulties, began producing steam automobiles, steam trucks and busses. About three years ago the Beslers and their friend Clement Harts began experiments...
William George Besler, Central R. R. of New Jersey; Harry E. Byram, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (now receiver); Howard Elliott, Northern Pacific; James Edward Gorman, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Howard George Hetzler, Western Indiana; N. L. Howard, C. G. W.; Charles Mack Levey, Western Pacific; Henry Miller, Terminal R. R. of St. Louis; H. C. Nutt, Monongahela; Daniel Willard, Baltimore & Ohio...
This project too has yet to materialize, but its announcement last week was underwritten by the following names: William George Besler, President of the Railroad Presidents of America; David White, Chairman of the Division of Geology and Geography of the National Research Council; Edward Francis Carry, President of the Pullman Co.; Charles Campbell, Deputy Minister of Mines for Canada; Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern Railroad; Stephen Tyng Mather, Director of the National Park Service; Hermon Carey Bumpus, American Museum of Natural History (1902-11); Charles Doolittle Waicott, President of the Smithsonian Institution; C. A. Fetterolf, International Mercantile Marine...
...Scythia (Cunard)−Sir Alfred Yarrow, famed British shipbuilder; William George Besler, President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey; Dr. Miles Farrow, organist and choirmaster -of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Manhattan) ; Mme. Helena Rubenstein, beautifier...