Green car

Edward Howland Robinson Green or Colonel Green (1868 – 1936) in his electric car operating his radio receiving apparatus, probably near his home on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts. Green was son of Hetty Green (the “Witch of Wall Street”), said to be the wealthiest woman in the world. Col. Green was quite interested in radio communication, and on account of a leg amputation he suffered as a child, he came to own several specially equipped vehicles including this one.

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