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1901 St. Louis at National Museum of Transportation. St. Louis Motor Carriage Company was a manufacturer of automobiles at 1211–13 North Vandeventer Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri, founded by George Preston Dorris (later credited with developing and patenting the float-carburetor) and John L. French in 1898, with French taking charge of marketing and Dorris heading engineering and production.
Other notable buildings include the Bank of Ozark/Masonic Lodge (1897), First Baptist Church (1919), Methodist Episcopal Church (1914), Robertson Brothers’ Store (1882), Ozark Drug (1905), Works Progress Administration Community Building (1934), Hospital (c. 1945), and Christian County Bank (c. 1886, 1910 façade).
One of the few surviving Lisbon's São Luís type cars (series 400–474): of the original batch of 75 units, imported in 1901 and retired up to 1973, most were scrapped, three remain operational in Lisbon (a museum car restored to original condition and two modified for tourist duty since 1965, fitted with luxury upholstering — No.2, former No.435, on the photo), and five saw heritage use ...
Without a dollar in his pocket, Russell E. Gardner left his home state of Tennessee for St. Louis in 1879. [4] Three-and-a-half decades later he was a multi-millionaire. Gardner had made it big in St. Louis by manufacturing Banner buggies before the turn of the century, and unlike many wagon builders, was well aware of what the automobile age ...
Car #32 - Moon - winning the 1909 Wheatley Hills Race. Moon Motor Car Company (1905 – 1930) was an American automobile company that was located in St. Louis, Missouri.The company had a venerable reputation among the buying public, as it was known for fully assembled, easily affordable mid-level cars using high-quality parts.
1904 Dyke-Britton 20 hp Combination Car. Dyke was the first American auto parts business, [citation needed] established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1899 by A.L. Dyke (Andrew Lee Dyke). Dyke also sold early autos, kit car or assembled. [1] In addition to the Dyke name, the company also sold automobiles under the St. Louis and Dyke-Britton names. [2]
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The National Museum of Transportation (TNMOT) is a private, 42-acre transportation museum in the Kirkwood suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1944, [1] it restores, preserves, and displays a wide variety of vehicles spanning 15 decades of American history: cars, boats, aircraft, and in particular, locomotives and railroad equipment from around the United States.