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Early Cars & Automotive History

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The First Car Radio (Literary Digest, 1922)

An article that your gadget-loving, audiophile pals will probably not enjoy from the days before "woofers" and "tweeters". Will wonders never cease? A radio IN THE CAR and an antenna that looks like a luggage rack, for heavens sake...



A 1914 Crash Photograph (Popular Mechanics, 1914)

A rare action photograph of an unidentified car and driver smashing into the crowd-control fencing at the Vanderbilt Cup Races held in Santa Monica, California during the summer of 1914. The unstopable jugernaut was cruising at sixty-miles miles per hour.

Click here to read about the historic trans-Atlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh.

*Watch a Film Clip About Auto Racing Between 1903 - 1906*

How Many Americans Had Cars in the 1920s? (Current Opinion, 1922)

The post-World War One American economy was humming along nicely when a journalist noticed how many more cars there were on the streets. Perhaps there was no written study documenting what we now call 'the order of durable goods'-the yardstick we currently use to measure American opulence, and so this investigative journalist came up with a different way of figuring out just how many cars Americans could purchase -and we're glad he did.

Advance of the Low-Priced Automobile (Current Literature, 1912)

In answer to the cry for more affordable cars that can easily be purchased by working families, the French automobile industry of 1912 produced a line of long, narrow, boat-like cars, "mounted on four wire wheels, carrying it's passengers in tandem fashion". The production of these one and two cylinder air-cooled motors was based more upon the production lines of motorcycles rather than cars.

The Obituary of J.M. Studebaker (The Atlanta Georgian, 1917)

J.M Studebaker (1833 - 1917) "was a pioneer in vehicle building and lived to see the change in locomotion from oxcarts to automobiles. He had been engaged in the manufacture of vehicles for sixty-five years".

This is a very quick and interesting read, highlighting the key events in the life of this automotive engineer whose name is so readily recognized some eighty-five years after his death.

*Home Movie: a Car-Guy and his Studebaker*

American Trucks & Armored Cars of the Great War (Vanity Fair, 1916)

Recognizing the importance of armored vehicles, a group of American Milionaires, among them Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), pooled their money and donated a number of such items to the New York National Guard. Vanity Fair Magazine followed this story and produced this article as it developed with a thorough review of each of the donated military vehicles. Although the trucks are photographed, few are named.

*Watch a Film Clip About the Rolls Royce Armored Car, 1914 - 1948*


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