The Times-Herald Race: America in the Lead – The Motocycle – November 1895
Of the eleven originally foreseen contestants, some couldn’t make it to the staring line. So only six really got on the way, four gasolines and two electrics. They gathered all six in line for the Jackson Park World’s Fairgrounds. The race in itself is more or less, summarised in this two-page article. With permission of […]
The Times-Herald Race: Several Break-Downs – The Motocycle – November 1895
This article is more extended version of therace description. It gives a more specific report of the race, where the what’s and where’s of some of the contestants is described. Interesting though, the first American application of pneumatic tyres, similar to the ones half a year earlier in the Paris-Bordeaux race. Finally, on page16, a […]
The Times-Herald Race: Judges – The Motocycle – November 1895
The new American motor magazine „The Motocycle (Automobile), already started on its onset with reporting the 1895 Times-Herald Race in Chicago. Many articles wre published, of which here only the most inetersting ones are given. It started out with pointing out the judges and their assistants. All things first! With permission of hathitrust hathitrust.org == […]
America’s First Horseless Carriage Race 1895 – Saturday Evening Post – January 1941
This article was published in The Saturday Evening Post of January 5th 1941, just some 45 years after the event took place. Written by Herman Henry (H. H.) Kohlsaat (1853-1924), reportedly editor and publisher of the Times-Herald newspaper, the originator of this first vehicle event in America. He got the idea of a carriage contest, […]
First American Automobile Race 1895 – hathitrust
„A pictorial history of the American automobile, as seen in Motor Magazine 1903-1953“, by Philip Van Doren Stern. This 1953 book explains a large part of the first fifty years American automotive history, covered in over just more than 250 pages. This part below deals with the 1895 November Times-Herald contest in Chicago. Text and […]
A Golden Anniversary 1895-1945 – hathitrust
„A pictorial history of the American automobile, as seen in Motor Magazine 1903-1953“, by Philip Van Doren Stern. This 1953 book explains a large part of the first fifty years American automotive history, covered in over just more than 250 pages. This part below deals with the 1895 November Times-Herald contest in Chicago. Text and […]