Updated – This special photo shows a circa-1908 Mercedes or Fiat light 25-45 h.p. sports or racing car chassis with a Gordon Watney-like body carrying a pair racing cycle cars on a rack. The building behind the rig may be a cycle car factory as the well-used ramp on the far left in the foreground…
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Recently there was a popular post here on these pages covering a pioneering female: By Motor to the Golden Gate – Emily Post – 1915. It covered her cross-country trip by car, and even though she did not identify the maker of the chassis or the coachbuilder, the styling of it looked quite familiar. The apparent reason…
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Posing for a photograph in New York City. Emily Post was an American author famous for writing about etiquette. In 1915 against the advice of many of her friends and even a few professionals she decided to take a cross-country journey in her car from New York City to San Francisco driven by her son Bruce….
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