Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-1997
Abstract
David Holcombe discusses Alexander Winton’s contributions to transportation as Cleveland’s first automobile manufacturer, and details Winton’s 1899 road trip from Cleveland to New York “‘to demonstrate to the people of this country that the Winton Motor Carriage Company, of Cleveland, was engaged in the manufacture of an automobile which would serve as means of practical locomotion even to distant points’”. Conference paper; originally published in Western Reserve Studies Symposium (12th:1997 : Cleveland, Ohio)
Keywords
Winton Motor Carriage Company, Winton, Alexander, 1860-1932--Travel, Automobile industry and trade--Ohio--Cleveland--History
Publication Title
Western Reserve Studies Symposium
Volume
12
Rights
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Recommended Citation
Holcombe, David, "The Winton Centennial and the Ride of a Century" (1997). Western Reserve Studies Symposium. 273.
https://commons.case.edu/wrs-symposium/273