Just a look back

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Just a look at just how far we have come in 100 years with our cars

Historical Automotive Trivia - 1904

Production - 22,130 Passenger Cars 700 Trucks

Autocar - Pioneers circulating lubrication system for engines.

Cadillac Automobile Company - Fire at plant delays production and forces company to return dealer deposits on 1,500 cars.

Cadillac Motor Car Company - Formed from merger of Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Company with Cadillac Automobile Company.

Crawford Automobile Co. - Organized by Robert S. Crawford

Demountable rims - New industry adoption. Appeared on many new models.

Detroit Y.M.C.A. - Establishes a school for automobile mechanics.

Ford Motor Company - Opens first branch on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, MI.

Hartford Shock Absorber - Introduced by E. V. Hartford.

Henry Ford - Drove his “Arrow” a mile in 39 2/3 seconds on the ice on Lake St. Clair, MI

National Association of Retail Automotive Dealers New industry name

Packard “Grey Wolf” - Breaks the one mile speed record 13 times in two days on Florida’s Ormond-Daytona Beach.

Pope-Hartford - Criticized by competitors for including lamps as standard equipment.

Prest-O-Lite Company - Organized, to perfect a safe method of using acetylene gas for automobile headlights, by Carl Graham Fisher and James A. Allison.

Ransom E. Olds - Sells his interest in Olds Motor Works and organized Reo Motor Car Co.

Stevens-Duryea Company - Organized to make cars with four and six cylinder engines. Unit construction of engine, clutch and transmission housings was introduced.

Studebaker - An old line buggy maker, sells it’s first gasoline motor vehicle.

Vanderbilt Cup Race - First race is run on Long Island. Won by G. Heath in a 90 horsepower French Panhard.

White - Introduces their first bus.

William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. - Drove a Mercedes at Daytona Beach for a new record: a mile in 39 seconds.

Now think about the fact that there are people alive NOW that have seen this all happen Even if they where just born in 1904. IMO we have come along way in a very short time.:beard: