Reim-Thompson was also the first employer of Wellington Everett Miller, a well-known Los Angeles-based automobile body designer.

W.E. Miller was born in Los Angeles, California on November 19, 1904 to William Edgar and Emma Lewis (Lyttle) Miller. He became enamored with automobile design while visiting the 1920 Los Angeles Auto Salon where he was particularly attracted to a new Lincoln on the stand of the Walter M. Murphy Co.

Miller decided to become an automobile designer and entered into a course of mathematics and mechanical drawing, taking an after school job with Reim-Thompson as a shop assistant.

In April of 1921 the 16-year-old went to work for Walter M. Murphy as a draftsman’s assistant to the firm’s two delineators, George R. Fredericks and Charles Gerry. Miller was hired full-time by Murphy after graduation and eventually became the firm’s chief designer.

Miller and another Murphy delineator named John Tjaarda moved to Rochester, New York in April, 1926 to serve as Locke & Company’s body designers, and when that firm went bankrupt, he returned to Murphy for a few short months after which he was hired as a body designer by the Packard Motor Co. in 1928.

He returned to Los Angeles in 1933 and starting in 1935 served as chief designer for the Advance Auto Body Works until 1940 when he became chief engineer of Crown Body and Coach Corp.. When the war commenced in late 1941 he became associated with preliminary design department of the Lockheed Aircraft Co. of  Burbank, California. When the War ended he went to work for Century Engineering Inc., another Burbank design firm.

Miller's most famous creation was the Arrowhead 3-wheeled prototype which was built during 1935-1936 by the Advance Auto Body Works as a promotional car for the Arrowhead Spring Water Co. of Los Angeles. The Arrowhead was pictured on the cover of the November 1935 issue of MoToR where it was referred to as the “Car of 1960”. 

The rear-mounted flathead Ford V-8 was mounted backwards, and transferred power to the front wheels via a standard transmission, torque tube and axle. The car was steered through the single rear wheel, and was similar in layout to Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxions. 

Only one of the reportedly $8,000 vehicles was built and a circa 1960 article stated that the car still existed, however its current whereabouts are unknown.

Miller married Martha Katherine Gibson on October 10, 1936 and to the blessed union were born three sons; Wilton Everett, David Gibson and Marc Edsel Miller.

After his April 6, 1983 death as the result of a massive stroke suffered one month earlier, W.E. Miller’s extensive portfolio and automobile reference library was acquired by the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar, California.