Leo Melanowski was an American automotive engineer in the

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. Melanowski apprenticed at ''Otto Gasmotoren Gesellschaft'' in

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, and then worked for

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, and Winton (working on their Bullett

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s as well as acting as manufacturing foreman). He replaced John Robbins as plant superintendent of

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when Robbins left in 1904. At WMC, he also had the position of a chief engineer. He left Waltham in 1906, to help racecar driver

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starting the Dragon Automobile Company in

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. After that failed in 1908, he worked for the Aerocar Company which very soon folded, too.

References

* * G. N. Georgano (editor): ''Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present''. New York: Dutton Press, 2nd edition (Hardcover) 1973, * {{DEFAULTSORT:Melanowski, Leo American automotive engineers 20th-century American engineers Year of birth missing Year of death missing