Thursday, September 3, 2009

Tom Davenport, First Budd Corporate Counsel, Dies

Tom Davenport passed away on August 19th at age 86.

He lived in Birmingham. Memorial service will be held at a later date.


He hired in as a Patent attorney and become Budd's first General Counsel.


He was an interesting man who played tennis, squash, golf and fencing. He also got into hot air ballooning and sailing.

Tom also had a great collection of box cameras and Lionel trains.