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The Sears retail chain had previously marketed vehicles made by the Lincoln Motor Car Works under the name "Sears Motor Buggy" between 1908 and 1912. [1] These horseless carriages were of the "high-wheeler" variety with large wagon-type wheels. Their high ground clearance was well-suited to muddy, wagon-rutted country roads.
After Charles Patterson's death in 1910, his son, Frederick Douglas Patterson, took over the carriage business aiming to manufacture their own "horseless carriage," [4] initially offering local automotive service. [1] On September 23, 1915, the first C.R. Patterson and Sons automobile was assembled, a two-door coupe. [4]
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Horseless carriage is an early name for the motor car or automobile. Prior to the invention of the motor car, carriages were usually pulled by animals, typically horses. The term can be compared to other transitional terms, such as wireless phone. These are cases in which a new technology is compared to an older one by describing what the new ...
1902 is on display in Half Moon Bay, CA. Owned by James Holsman, a descendent of Henry Holsman. The Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, has a 1902 Holsman on display. A 1902 Holsman is on display at the Louwman Museum in The Hague, Netherlands.
Foreseeing the necessity to switch to the production of horseless carriages, Cunningham started automobile production in 1908 with gasoline engine cars that sold at approximately $3,500, a very high price at the time. Initially the company made only the chassis.
Talk of Sears’ demise may be premature: just two months ago, a previously shuttered Sears in Burbank, California, quietly turned the lights back on. Two weeks after that, another reopened in ...
It was also the first automobile made available for sale in the United States. It was initially a three-wheel horseless carriage , propelled by an internal combustion gasoline engine; it was later developed into a four-wheel automobile with a gearless transmission, and mass-produced during the first part of the twentieth century.