West, No his name was George William "Mike" Murphy. He worked for the Auburn-Cord-Dusenburg company. According to my mother-in-law he was an "expermential engineer" but I don't really know what he did there. He loved cars and had the money (during the depression) to own a lot of fancy autos. After ACD went under, he moved to Greensboro NC (the picture is in front of his house there).