the Dymaxion car No. 1 was
developed in the Locomobile plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The chief engineer for the project was Starling Burgess, a naval
Architect who had designed two successful America’s cup defenders,
and had invented and flown the first Delta wing aircraft. During this
period, Burgess was “between cup defenders,” and Fuller persuaded
him to serve as assistant in experiments to test “the ground taxiing
qualities of the 4D omni-directional transport.”
Info at; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Starling_Burgess
The photo, and quote, above, are from;
The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller by Robert W. Marks
published by Southern Illinois University Press in 1960.