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Famous modeler who worked under Harley Earl in the first iteration of GM's
Art & Colour.
When word got around GM that Harley Earl and Earnest Seaholm, the
engineering operations chief, were looking for key men with special talents,
several came forward. Ralph Pew (sketching), Joe Thompson (modeling), Howard
O'Leary (administration) were among the first group. By late January 1928,
Art and Colour had 50 men. Earl and his new styling department were underway
and would, eventually, dominate the history of automotive design.
Frederick E. Hoadley - Automobile Design Techniques and Design Modeling: the
Men, the Methods, the Materials
book features George Mercer, Harley Earl, Joe Thompson, Gordon Buehrig, Alan
H. Leamy and Bob Gregorie.
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