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During his Great Western period Mr. Chrysler lived in Oelwein, Iowa. His mechanical curiosity was aroused by the two or three horseless thing-a-ma-jigs that sometimes moved through the streets, especially on Sundays, chugging and snorting and kicking up dust with a maximum of noise and a minimum of grace. They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave...
...Junior Champion of the vicinity, added thus to his fame, his income. But it was in four-wheeled, not two-wheeled, vehicles that he made his fortune. Like many another far-sighted man who was young when the automobile industry was an infant, he hitched his wagon to the horseless-carriage. In 1898 he went to Europe, brought back two European-made motor cars, sold both at a profit. Then he went to Detroit, came back with a contract giving him the New England territory for the Packard car. As the Packard car prospered, as more and more motorists began...
...wings were society's props. Archie Inch was a white wing; so was Archie's father; so was Archie's grandfather; just so all Inches, by birth, tradition, inheritance, were white wings. Alas! that the horse must go the way of all flesh, that the inhuman horseless carriage should sweep up yesterday's honored white wings, dump them in the rubbish can of outworn traditions. Mary (Winifred Lenihan), faithful to her father's revolutionary gas-buggy, loves and will always love Archie, the Quixotic, uniformed champion of the horse. Of course, when Mary shoots Josie...
Resplendent with its shining brass trimmings, and still capable of doing a good 15 miles per hour on a down grade, one of the first horseless carriages of Cambridge, a 1909 model Maxwell has returned after over a decade of honorable retirement to the scenes of its former glory...
...Manhattan baby was the U. S. automobile industry, swaddled for its first show. The 31 cars exhibited came so far from filling the spacious Garden that an oval track was erected on the floor, around which the "horseless carriages" chug-chugged through their nursery paces to the mixed distrust and astonishment of gaping throngs. Up on the roof a demonstration "hill" was constructed, and here many an adventurous blood with money to spend had the ride that sold him his first motor...