Recreate Auto Race-Cadillac 1907

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Recreate Auto Race-Cadillac 1907

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Item No: arcd01233
Title: Recreate Auto Race-Cadillac 1907
Production Year: 1907
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
Notes:

 Chicago- To commemorate fifty years of automobile progress, museum officials plan to recreate the first automobile race in history which took place on Thanksgiving Day 1895. Early models of the horseless carriage are being readied by the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for the occasion. The recreated race will be held on Thanksgiving Day of this year and will take place over the same course as the first race. AS non of the original entries is in existence, cars of the same type, but of a later era-1905 to 1910- will be used. Here, Charles B. King, umpire in the first auto race, sits at the right-hand  drive of a 1907 Cadillac. This car is powered by a single cylinder five inch stroke engine. Museum officials plan to use this early car in the recreated race scheduled for November 1945.


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