The Trial and Postponement – The Horseless Age – December 1895
The Times-Herald Contest originally was set for November 2, 1895. Alas, it showed that only a handfull of contestants proved able to actually have their vehicle ready-for-go in that short of time. Therefore, a new date was set on Thanksgiving day, November 28. But for those available in November 2, a day earlier was announced […]
La Course des Voitures Automobiles Paris-Bordeaux – L’Illustration – 22 June 1895
This is the June issue of the French magazine L’Illustration that most probably, Henry Kohlsaat of the Times-Herald newspaper of Chicago could have seen in May 1895. This then was the main impetus for him to start organising a similar contest in Chicago. In November 1895, that race event then was to become America’s first […]
Duryea Is First – The Chicago Times-Herald – Friday Morning, 29 November 1895
This Friday-Morning issue of the Chicago Times-Herald, is published just after the Thursday 28 November Race. I don’t know the name of the reporter(s), but this real long read is so much interesting not to neglect. It is the most accurate reporting of the race, in a way, as if U were participating yourself or […]
Key To Map of the Times-Herald Race – 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. […]
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 == […]
Les Automobiles en Amerique (Translation) – La Locomotion Automobile – No. 10, October 1895
If anyone might have tought that Europe wouldn’t be interested in US motor racing: here’s proof of the contrary. In it’s first active publishing year, the French magazine La Locomotion Automobile publishes in all three reports on the first American motoring race; written by their US correspondant Charles Loved. This second article shows that preliminary […]
Les Automobiles en Amerique – La Locomotion Automobile – No. 10, October 1895
If anyone might have tought that Europe wouldn’t be interested in US motor racing: here’s proof of the contrary. In it’s first active publishing year, the French magazine La Locomotion Automobile publishes in all three reports on the first American motoring race; written by their US correspondant Charles Loved. This second article shows that preliminary […]
La Course du „Times-Herald“ à Chicago (Translation) – La Locomotion Automobile – No. 9, Septembre 1895
If anyone might have tought that Europe wouldn’t be interested in US motor racing: here’s proof of the contrary. In it’s first active publishing year, the French magazine La Locomotion Automobile publishes in all three reports on the first American motoring race; written by their US correspondant Charles Loved. This first article shows the introduction, […]