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 – Charles B. King
Charles B. King was one of the umpire-drivers of the 1895 Times-Herald Race in Chicago. Fifty years later, he commemorizes his experience of that historic event in „A Golden Anniversary – Personal Side Lights of America’s First Automobile Race“. This work comprisies in all some 60 pages, of which we’ll post here several chapters separately. […]