Signed Card, with Drawing of a Single Engine Aircraft

Very Good. Verso of a business card signed in blue ink "Wm B Stout" - William Bushnell Stout (b. March 16, 1880 d. March 20, 1956) was a pioneer in aviation and in early automoble design. FOUNDER OF "STOUT AIR SERVICES," THE FIRST REGULARLY SCHEDULED AIRLINE IN AMERICA. Stout designed the aircraft which became the Ford Trimotor. In 1914 he became Chief Engineer of the Scripps-Booth Automobile Company. When the Packard Motor Car Company opened an aviation division, he became the first Chief Engineer. In 1919 he founded the Stout Engineering Company in Dearborn, Michigan and later built the prototype Stout Scarab car in 1932, a "beetle-like" car with an all aluminum body, tubular airframe, rear engine and reclining aircraft-style seats. Too expensive for mass production, only 9 Scarabs were ever built. In 1912, Mr. Stout founded the first aviation magazine ever published in the United States, "Aerial Age." In 1925, Stout founded Stout Air Services, which operated the first regularly scheduled airline in the United States.