Howard Frederick Hobbs

Howard Frederick Hobbs (21 September 1902 – 15 December 1982)^[1] was a South Australian inventor, a pioneer of automatic transmission for motor vehicles. In 1932 he moved to England, where he spent the rest of his life developing automatic gearboxes that failed to find a market.

^ G. H. Brooks, 'Hobbs, Howard Frederick (1902–1982)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2007, accessed online 10 March 2018.

[adb-1] G. H. Brooks, 'Hobbs, Howard Frederick (1902–1982)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2007, accessed online 10 March 2018.

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