Please Check My Work: Tucker Wikipedia Pages

[Nickshu]

All,

I spent several months collecting/compiling information and rewriting the Wikipedia pages on Preston Tucker and the 1948 Tucker Sedan. Prior to this they included only basic information. While it's not possible to include all details in these Wikipages, I tried to hit the highpoints and tried to be as accurate as possible. Info was gathered from the two Tucker books, various other internet sources, transcripts of court case documents summarized online, and conversations with others here and elsewhere. Please take a look and post here any inaccuracies you may find, or things you recommend I add or change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Tucker

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Tucker_Sedan

Nick.

[Larry Clark]

Nick- I am impressed with what you have done. Good organization of material, very comprehensive and an obvious attempt to set forth facts. For high school free enterprise classes in particular, you have provided a valuable source. At some point I will try to take up your request to more closely read it for possible minor corrections and/or additions.

Larry

[Tuckerfan1053]

I have two small suggestions. One is that you don't have a link to the wiki page for Cass (which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Technical_High_School). The second is that on the Cass page, Tucker is not listed amongst the notable alumni (while John DeLorean is).

[Nickshu]

I have two small suggestions. One is that you don't have a link to the wiki page for Cass (which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Technical_High_School). The second is that on the Cass page, Tucker is not listed amongst the notable alumni (while John DeLorean is).

Thanks, I will update. However from my research I am not sure if Tucker actually graduated from Cass THS vs. just attended for awhile.. He therefore is not an alumnus, but I will add him to the page. Do you know for sure if he actually graduated from Cass?

[Tuckerfan1053]

I have two small suggestions. One is that you don't have a link to the wiki page for Cass (which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Technical_High_School). The second is that on the Cass page, Tucker is not listed amongst the notable alumni (while John DeLorean is).

Thanks, I will update. However from my research I am not sure if Tucker actually graduated from Cass THS vs. just attended for awhile.. He therefore is not an alumnus, but I will add him to the page. Do you know for sure if he actually graduated from Cass?

Nary a clue, as the information I've seen on it is a bit contradictory. I wonder if it might be possible to get Tucker's transcripts? Its possible that the school might still have them (because of reasons of bureaucratic inertia) stashed someplace.

[JWK]

Excellent work! Very complete and easy to get around.

Now, are you ready for your next project? I've always wished for the ability, either here or maybe on your Wiki site, of having each car listed with it's entire known history. For example, if I wanted to know the history of car 1002, I could click on it and get the factory history information, time line of owners and locations, modifications, restorations, pictures, current location, etc. Much of the information is spread out over this site and other places, but it is very hard to follow a particular car, and there are some inconsistencies and just bad information too. It would be very hard to do with some cars, but others have pretty well known and complete histories.

Might be a good idea to do before we lose too many more of the people with first hand knowledge (sorry if that sounds morbid).

JWK

[Tuckerfan1053]

Another suggestion is to amend the section dealing with Tucker's Brazil talks to build a car there, and include a link to Adhemar de Barros' page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhemar_de_Barros) as he's the gentleman Tucker was talking with, and the guy seems to have been a pretty interesting fellow based on his wiki page. He was responsible for building up a great deal of Brazil's infrastructure.

Also, you might want to put a question mark beside the cause of death for Preston. I know that there's some debate if the alternative medicine treatment for his lung cancer worked or not, but I'm awaiting information which could strongly point to there being an entirely different cause of death for Preston. One that most likely would have appeared to have been lung cancer (or pneumonia) to the doctors of that era, but is, in fact, not cancer or pneumonia at all.