Horses of Iron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_C._Anthony
The electric car built by Earl C.Anthony in 1897 when he was 17 years old...
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Brighton England 1896 celebrates the end of the 1865 Red Flag Act and an increase of the speed limit "...from a comparatively safe two miles an hour to a reckless twelve.":
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Nice collection assembled for the 100th Italian Motor Week in 2004:
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Nice video from the Wheels Through Time "Museum That Runs" motorcycle and car museum in Maggie Valley, NC
http://www.wheelsthroughtim...

Two Excelsiors in original and running condition!
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One more video from the Wheels Through Time "Museum That Runs" motorcycle and car museum in Maggie Valley, NC
http://www.wheelsthroughtime.com/

Both a Dayton 1915 motorcycle with sidecar AND a 1915 Dayton motorwheel on a bicycle!
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Three-wheeled battery electric that folds up:
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This is a remix of the chase scene from Girl Shy with Harold LLoyd released in 1924. Ya got yer Tin Lizzies, yer motor bike, yer gasser autos, electric trollies, horsedrawn buckboard, bicycle and baby carriage...
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Ouch... Was a YouTube vid once but since removed for TOU violation... :(

This may be the first annual automobile parade, held on November 4, 1899 in downtown Manhattan. At least ten different makes and models are seen, including electric and steam powered machines. Only three years earlier, in 1896, Henry Ford, Charles Brady King, Alexander Winton and Ransom Eli Olds had each introduced their gasoline cars.

In 1900, the first National Auto Show was held at Madison Square Garden and the favorites were the electrics and the steamers. In 1901, new oil fields in Texas made gasoline affordable. That same year, mass production techniques were introduced into car manufacturing. These two factors would prove to be key developments in the rapid growth of the American automobile industry.

Thomas A. Edison; 6 Feb,1900
 
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