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Jul 29, 2020 · The rapid development of automotive technology was leaving the Bullet out-classed for international competition, so rather than enter it in unwinnable competition, Winton sold the Bullet to Barney Oldfield to tour the country ignominiously as a dirt track match race workhorse. Today, the Bullet No. 2 rests in the marble halls of the Smithsonian ...
Alexander Winton (June 20, 1860 – June 21, 1932) was a Scottish-American bicycle, automobile, and diesel engine designer and inventor, as well as a businessman and racecar driver. Winton founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company in 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio
- Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
- June 20, 1860, Grangemouth, Scotland
- Winton Motor Carriage Company
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Apr 13, 2020 · Five years later, in 1901, Ford won his first race by beating Alexander Winton in a 10-lap race at the Detroit Driving Club. You can see that exact car, known as the Sweepstakes, at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. By 1903, his race cars were topping 60 mph.
Find out about City-to-city / Gordon Bennett driver, Alexander Winton, their career, history and character information incl. races, teams and much more.
Automotive industry pioneer Alexander Winton (right foreground) promoted his Winton Motor Carriage Company with a series of sleek race cars he named "Bullet."
Oct 30, 2001 · Dearborn, MI -- Henry Ford's one and only race on October 10, 1901, in nearby Grosse Pointe, Michigan change the world. It was that race, in which Mr. Ford upset Alexander Winton, the country's...
Sep 23, 2018 · One year, in an early Gordon Bennett race, Winton entered a single-cylinder race car whose engine displaced 3.8 liters. It broke. Things went better on the road-car side, with Winton introducing its first straight-six engine in 1908, boasting a price that pushed $6,000.
