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Fifty Years of American Cars From Duryea to Mass Production
The piece recounts the Duryea brothers founding the Duryea Motor Wagon Corp in 1896 and the 1895 Chicago to Evanston race. It notes farmer resistance to autos, the Model T's rise in the early 1900s, and the museum exhibit tracing automotive evolution, safety advances, and mass production up to 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Duryea
Charles
Duryea Motor Wagon Corp
Pioneer Automobile Manufacturing Company
United States
Duryea Company
Chicago
Ifty
H. H. P. Somsone
Old
Chicago Times-Herald
Kohlsaar
Henry Ford
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Museum
the Arts
Evanston
Rogers
Macys of
New York
Duryea
Benz
Oscar Mueller
Charles King
King
Mueller
C. F. Kettering
U. S
Duryea-Stevens
Dakotan
J. Frank Duryea
Arthur M. White