With the millions and millions of cars that are sold in America every year, did you ever wonder who bought the very first one? And who made that car? No, it wasn't a Ford. It was a Winton and was bought by Robert Allison who lived in the small town of Port Carbon outside of Pottsville, PA.
Alexander Winton owned a bicycle factory in Cleveland, Ohio. Robert Allison was 71 years old at the time and the car was purchased on April 1, 1898, for $1, 000. He was a mechanical engineer who owned a company, Franklin Iron Works, where they made machinery for the mining companies right there in the anthracite coal region.
Other cars were made at this time also. Haynes and Duryea made cars and though Haynes would claim to have sold a car at this time, there is no record of it.
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The car was a one-seater. There was no steering wheel but it was steered with a bar much like the tongue of a wagon. It was a one lunger, meaning it had one cylinder. The engine was in the rear. The wheels were like large bicycle wheels with 36 inches in the rear and 32 inches in the front. It had two gears – forward and reverse. It was called a horseless carriage.
The brochure that came with the vehicle from Winton Motor Carriage Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, stated, among other things, that this particular carriage has fully demonstrated its practicability and success in actual service over all kinds and conditions of roads – uphill and down – through mud, sand and snow at a speed of from 3 to 20 miles per hour.
It arrived by rail freight in Pottsville. Many people came to see it. Several men tried to crank the car to get it started without success. Finally a large man gave it a try just as Mr. Allison's son found a switch under the seat and turned it on. The engine roared and the frightened man ran away. Mr. Allison drove it home the two miles to Port Carbon with only one incident. A team of horses bolted at the sight of it. Mr. Allison parked it in his stable.
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Sometime later he drove the car to Philadelphia which was about 90 miles away and the trip only took three days. He wanted to drive the car on a paved road where one could be found in a park there. Think about it. The roads were dirt and where did he get the gas? There were no gas stations. He bought gas in drug stores. When he arrived in Philadelphia, they would not let him drive in the park anyway. He had to coax several of his friends to go with him before one would. No, he didn't drive the car home. He had it shipped by rail.
Mr. Allison purchased several cars after that and you might say that he was the first to trade in a car since Alexander Winton bought it back.
It was in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, for many years and then loaned to an automobile museum in either Cleveland or Detroit.
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This could be a rare picture which is why I watermarked it. It shows the first car made in America in 1892 and the car is called Violet for some reason. Does anyone have more information?
Kinda hard to call that a car. I know the first cars were steam buy this one looks like a odd homemade cart. Steel rims no rubber, the seat is already worn out. Interesting picture no doubt.
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On the back the date of this photo is the 1930's and the man who built the car in 1892 was named Philion I think.
Those were not what I call a car they were a horseless carriage. the first real car was the model T IMO because people could afford one and they were avaliable to the public
I'd give that honor to Oldsmobile and the 1901 Curved Dash Olds. Oldsmobile was the first volume manufacturer in the United States, and by the time the Model T was in production in 1908 there were already hundreds of different American car manufacturers.
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Also, Ransom Eli Olds built a three-wheeled steam car as far back as 1887. And if you want to get even more technical, America was building clunky steam powered vehicles in the early-mid 1800s. They could only do about 7 mph and were basically useless for any real work, but they were self-propelled motorized vehicles.
, , the first real car was the model T IMO because people could afford one and they were avaliable to the public
Not even that, actually. Oldsmobile was the first manufacturer with an assembly line; Henry Ford gets the honor of having the first automated assembly line, which debuted in 1913.
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Oldsmobile and Ransom Eli Olds got the shaft when it comes to awareness of automotive history. The Model T was a wildly popular vehicle in its day, but it was a late bloomer in terms of the early US automotive industry and many of Ford's firsts should really be credited to Oldsmobile.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68, 000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.Invtors began to branch out at the start of the 19th ctury, creating the de Rivaz gine, one of the first internal combustion gines,
Developmt was hindered in the mid-19th ctury by a backlash against large vehicles, yet progress continued on some internal combustion gines. The gine evolved as gineers created two- and four-cycle combustion gines and began using gasoline as fuel. The first modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use—and the first car put into series production appeared in 1886, wh Carl Bz developed a gasoline-powered automobile and made several idtical copies.
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Later automobile production was marked by the Ford Model T, created by the Ford Motor Company in 1908, which became the first automobile to be mass-produced on a moving assembly line.
Ferdinand Verbiest, a member of a Jesuit mission in China, built a steam-powered vehicle around 1672 as a toy for the Kangxi Emperor. It was small-scale and could not carry a driver but it was, quite possibly, the first working steam-powered vehicle ('auto-mobile').
Steam-powered self-propelled vehicles large ough to transport people and cargo were first devised in the late 18th ctury. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrated his fardier à vapeur (steam dray), an experimtal steam-driv artillery tractor, in 1770 and 1771. As Cugnot's design proved to be impractical, his invtion was not developed in his native France. The cter of innovation shifted to Great Britain. By 1784, William Murdoch had built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth
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During the 19th ctury, attempts were made to introduce steam-powered vehicles. Innovations such as hand brakes, multispeed transmissions and better steering developed. Some successful vehicles provided mass transit until a backlash against these large vehicles resulted in the passage of legislation such as the UK Locomotives Act 1865, which required many self-propelled vehicles on public roads to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn. This effectively halted road auto developmt in the United Kingdom for most of the rest of the 19th ctury; invtors and gineers shifted their efforts to improvemts in railway locomotives. The law was not repealed until 1896, although the need for the red flag was removed in 1878.
In 1867, Canadian jeweler Hry Seth Taylor demonstrated his four-wheeled steam buggy at the Stanstead Fair in Stanstead, Quebec and again the following year.
The basis of the buggy, which he began building in 1865, was a high-wheeled carriage with bracing to support a two-cylinder steam gine mounted on the floor.
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The first automobile suitable for use on existing wagon roads in the United States was a steam-powered vehicle invted in 1871 by Dr. J.W. Carhart, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Racine, Wisconsin.
It induced the state of Wisconsin in 1875 to offer a US$10, 000 (equivalt to $266, 485 in 2022) award to the first to produce a substitute for the use of horses and other animals. They stipulated that the vehicle would have to maintain an average speed of more than 8 km/h (5 mph) over a 320 km (200 mi) course. The offer led to the first city to city automobile race in the United States, starting on 16 July 1878 in Gre Bay, Wisconsin, and ding in Madison, Wisconsin, via Appleton, Oshkosh, Waupun, Watertown, Fort Atkinson, and Janesville. While sev vehicles were registered, only two
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