Howard Frederick Hobbs

Howard Frederick Hobbs (21 Satumba 1902 - 15 Disamba 1982)  ya kasance mai kirkiro na Kudancin Australia, mai gabatarwa na watsawa ta atomatik don motoci. A shekara ta 1932 ya koma Ingila, inda ya kwashe sauran rayuwarsa yana haɓaka akwatunan kayan aiki na atomatik waɗanda suka kasa samun kasuwa.

 Tarihi 
An haifi Hobbs a Adelaide ɗan J (ohn) Harris Hobbs da Mary Eliza Hobbs, née Pitt, na Payneham kuma ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Prince Alfred, inda ya ci nasara a ilimi da kuma wasanni. 'Yan uwansa Norman Theodore Hobbs da ?? sun yi karatu a wannan makaranta. Ya bar makaranta yana da shekaru 15,  don yin aiki a gonar mahaifinsa da lambun kasuwa. 

A lokacin hutu, ya yi aiki a kan jerin abubuwan kirkirar inji. Bai taba samun ilimi mafi girma ba kuma ilimin injiniya da iyawarsa gaba ɗaya sun koyar da kansa.

Ya auri Phyllis Dorothy Reid a 1927; suna da 'yar Barbara a ranar 5 ga Mayu 1927. Sun zauna a Aljanna, wani yanki na Adelaide, inda ya shafe shekaru bakwai yana aiki a kan akwatin sa mai canzawa ta atomatik har sai da yake da samfurin aiki wanda ke aiki a cikin motar "yaro Austin". Abubuwan da ya kirkira sun sami goyon bayan farfesa R. W. Chapman da Kerr Grant na Jami'ar Adelaide. Za'a iya kallon raguwar sassa a nan.

An kafa kamfani, Hobbs Gearless Drive Limited, a watan Yunin 1931 tare da babban birnin £ 12,250 a cikin hannun jari na £ 1, don amfani da kirkirar. Sidney Crawford na Adelaide Motors, L. M. Anderson, R. Deaves (injiniya) na St. Peters, H. F. Hobbs (mai kirkiro), da mahaifinsa J. H. Hobbs sune daraktoci. J. H. Hobbs ya kasance shugaban kamfanin. Sauran masu saka hannun jari sune G. H. Scott (wakilin masana'anta na New Zealand na Austin Motor Car Company, Limited. Wellington), W. G. T. Goodman (injiniya), da Adelaide Motors Limited. Dukansu Hobbs da R. Deaves sun saka hannun jari a kamfanin.

Hobbs ya tashi zuwa Ingila tare da iyalinsa don nuna kirkirar ga injiniyoyi a Coventry. Hobbs sun Dauda a Leamington Spa, kuma suna da wasu yara biyu: John a ranar 1 ga Yulin 1933 kuma a ranar 9 ga Yuni 1939, an haifi ɗa David. David Hobbs zai ci gaba da yin tseren motoci na kasa da kasa da ya hada da tuki Sports Cars a Le Mans da kuma a gasar zakarun wasanni ta duniya, da kuma tsere a 7 Formula One Grands Prix. David kuma ya zama sanannen mai sharhi da mai sharhi game da tseren talabijin, yawanci yana aiki daga Amurka tare da cibiyoyin sadarwa kamar CBS, ESPN, Speed da NBCSN, yana aiki tare da masu kira kamar Ken Squier, Chris Economaki, Bob Varsha, John Bisignano, Ned Jarrett da Jackie Stewart.

 Manazarta 
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.
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1902