This ran in today's (April 2,2001) Detroit Free Press just in case someone is looking: James Taylor Auto innovator, yachtsman He got his idea from airplane wings - or rather, how wings were put together during World War II. The process was called bonding. And it was all James Taylor needed to see to develop a new way of making brakes and clutches for automobiles. Mr. Taylor's career started in 1936 at the Jefferson Assembly Plant. In 1950 he opened the Midwest Brake Bond Co., which bonded brakes and clutches for the automotive stamping industry. Along the way he bought a 72 foot yacht, raised three children and joined the Lochmoor Club, the Old Club and the Detroit Athletic Club. Mr. Taylor died Thursday. He was 83. His family said his pride and joy was his yacht, called Taylor Made. He was an active member of the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club for 36 years, where his family said, his robust and fiery personality left an impression. He also was a member of the Michigan Tooling Association, a Mason, York Rite, Scottish Rite and a Shriner. By the early 1990's, he opened a second company called Hibbing International Friction. He named the company for the small mining town in Minnesota where he grew up. Survivors include his wife, Helen Taylor; a son, Jim Taylor Jr.; daughters Joan Coyle and Joyce Johnston , and 12 grandchildren. A funeral service is at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, 16 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Farms.