Harry Miller

Harry Miller, born Harold Arminius Miller in Menomonie, Wisconsin in 1875, was an American race car designer and builder most active in the 1920s and 1930s. He began with the Yale Automobile Company, worked as a race mechanic for Ransom Olds, and then ran a Los Angeles shop making carburettors. That business led him to repair and then build racing cars and engines; he produced early aluminium pistons and alloys and a four-cylinder twin-cam engine that won the 1922 Indianapolis 500. Cars built by Miller won the Indianapolis 500 nine times, and cars with his engines won three more. After bankruptcy in 1933 his shop passed to Fred Offenhauser, and he later worked with Preston Tucker on the Tucker Combat Car. He died in Detroit in 1943 and is in three halls of fame.