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America’s Skepticism Toward the First Automobiles. This article from the February 8, 1930, issue of the Saturday Evening Post was featured in the Post’s Special Collector’s Edition: Automobiles in America! In 1930, Alexander Winton, by then one of the legends of the auto industry, wrote this article for the Post about the wild early days ...
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The average American, if he thinks about early automotive history at all, knows that Henry Ford invented the Model T, that there was a song involving Lucille and an Oldsmobile, that tires lasted about two hours, and that you risked being considered daft if you drove a “horseless carriage.” After all, why would anyone want to swap placid old Dobbin,...
Mankind being what it is, the invention of the car led almost immediately to the invention of competition, especially for the land-speed record (1911 marks the first running of the Indianapolis 500). Early land-speed record cars, like ships, were given names. And the first goal they pursued was a speed in excess of 100 kilometers per hour (62.5 mph...
Until 1911 all cars powered by internal combustion engines were cranked by hand, an act of necessity that could break an arm. Charles Kettering introduced the electric starter on 1911 Cadillacs; now even small women and little boys could operate an automobile. The year 1923 saw the first powered windshield washers on many cars; manual wipers were f...
You know most of what happened after tailfins. Technical advancement after technical advancement came along—arguably culminating in the cup holder. We’ve seen a lot: fuel injection, remote rearview mirrors, electronic engine control, antilock brakes, and so on. A new car now costs the average consumer more than 50 percent of his or her household in...
Alexander Winton, an automotive pioneer, recounts his early efforts in a 1930 Saturday Evening Post essay to convince the public that the “horseless carriage” was the future. Winton, a Columbus, Ohio-based bicycle manufacturer, completed one of the first commercial sales of an automobile in the United States in 1898.
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Nov 11, 2021 · When the first automobiles rolled into public view in the 1890s they were called horseless carriages. In a 1911 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, Alexander Winton, early inventor, and pioneer of the auto industry reflected on America’s initial skepticism toward the first wave of cars:
The Story of Alexander Winton; Automotive Pioneer and Industrialist Golias Publishing, Inc. 7271 Lonesome Pine Tr. Medina, OH 44256 Phone: (330) 483-4110 • Fax: (330) 483-4515 E-Mail: wintoncars@yahoo.com: Chapter 3 Making It As A Manufacturer 1897-1899
