Haynes-Apperson auto-buggy, America's First Car, Haynes Automobile Company, Kokomo, Indiana
Automobile Reference Domestic Cars, Makes A-Z
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Item No: arcd06715
Title: Haynes-Apperson auto-buggy, America's First Car, Haynes Automobile Company, Kokomo, Indiana
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Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
Notes:
America’s first car, invented designed and built in 1893 by Elwood Haynes, president of the Haynes Automobile Company, Kokomo, Indiana, is now the property of the United States Government, and is on exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. The government has placarded the car as follows: “Gasoline Automobile, built by Elwood Haynes in Kokomo, Indiana, 1893-1894. Successful trial trip made at a speed of six or seven miles per hour, July 4, 1894. Gift of Elwood Haynes, 1910. 262,135.”
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