Biography
Earle MacPherson was born in Highland Park, Illinois in 1891, and attended the University of Illinois. He worked in Chalmers Motor Company and for the Liberty Motor Car Company in the early 1920s, and joined Hupmobile in 1923. In 1934, he joined General Motors, becoming chief design engineer of Chevrolet division in 1935.
MacPherson was the chief engineer of the Chevrolet Cadet project, MacPherson also developed a suspension for the Cadet, partly inspired by Fiat designs patented by Guido Fornaca in the 1920s.
After the Cadet was canceled in May 1947, MacPherson left GM, joining the Ford Motor Company later that year. One of his first projects was to adapt his suspension design for the 1949 Ford Vedette.
This became the first car to use the MacPherson suspension.
MacPherson became chief engineer of Ford Motor Company in 1952, a position he retained until his retirement in May 1958. He died in 1960.
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