Early American Automobiles 1905 Models

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Copied from the 1905 edition of the Automotive Industries Magazine

When the little car shown in the photograph reproduced herewith was given its first test after completion and found to work perfectly, it proved the happiest moment in the life of Nels J. Nelson, an eighteen-year old boy of New Britain, Conn., for the car embodied in concrete form the ideas and workmanship of the young machinist and his partner, Ernest Powell, of the same place.

The little car measures 5 feet 6 inches between axles and has a tread of 30 inches. Within these dimensions the boy inventor has contrived to provide the features of a practical touring car, at a cost for materials of only $22.30. Nelson has been experimenting for three years in the construction of gasoline engines, the one in this car being the third that he and his partner have built. The first one was a motorcycle engine which was fitted to a bicycle that afforded the boys much pleasure. The second was a stationary gasoline engine. The third and present one is a 2 1-2-horsepower air-cooled engine for which Nelson made the patterns; he had to have the parts cast for him, and the cylinder was purchased, but the other parts of the car, including the bicycle wheels and the body, were made by the boys in their little 8 by 16-foot shop. Work on the engine for the machine was started about four months ago, and the entire car was completed in three months.

The car has shaft drive with universal joints, a two-speed transmission giving three to four miles on low and from ten to twelve miles an hour on high, and will carry two persons on the seat.

Early American Automobiles

1905 Models

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1905 Cameron Runabout
Cameron Motor Co. Pawtucket, RI
1903-1905

1905 Ford Model C
Ford. Motor Co. Detroit, MI
1903-Date

1905 Buffum Roadster with rumble seat
The H. H. Buffum & Co. Abington, MA
1903-1907

1905 Buick
Motor Car Co. Flint & Jackson, MI
1904-Date

1905 Cameron Runabout
Cameron Motor Co. Pawtucket, RI
1903-1905

1905 Ford Model C
Ford. Motor Co. Detroit, MI
1903-Date

1905 Buffum Roadster with rumble seat
The H. H. Buffum & Co. Abington, MA
1903-1907

1905 Buick
Motor Car Co. Flint & Jackson, MI
1904-Date

1905 Maxwell Delivery Truck
Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile Co., Tarrytown, NY and Detroit, Mi. 1904-1924

1905 Jewell Stanhope
Forrest City Motor Co. Massillon, OH
1906-1909

1905 Cadillac Touring
Cadllac Autoobile Co. Detroit, MI
1902- Date

1905 Franklin Model A Roadster
H.H. Franklin Mfg. Co. Syracuse, NY
1901-1917

1905 Lovell, No Information

1905 Scharbach (Hill Climber) Roadster
Hill Climber Bicycle Co. San Francisco, CA
1904-1906
Peter J. Scharbach is at the far right

1905 Peerless Tonneau
Peerless Motor Car Co. Cleveland, OH
1900-1938

1905 Eclipse Tonneau
The Krueger Manufacturing Company Milwaukee, WI
1905

1905 Lozier Side Entrance Tonneau
Lozier Motor Co. Plattsburg, NY
1905-1917

1905 Mahoning Tonneau
Mahoning Motor Car Co., Youngstown, OH
1904-1905

1905 Indian Tri-Car
Hendee Mfg. CO, Springfield, MA
1901-1953

1905 Acme Opera Limousine
Acme Motor Car Co Reading, Pennsylvania
1903-1910

1905 Detroit Small Car, 54 inch body
Detroit Mfg Co., Detroit, MI
1904-1908

1905 Corbin Side Entrrance Tonneau
Corbin Motor Vehicle Co. New Britain, CT
1903-1912

1905 Speedway Side Entrance Tonneau
Gas Engine & Power Co. Morris Heights, NY
1904-1905

1905 Logan Tonneau
Logan Construction Co. Chillicothe, OH
1903-1908

1905 Bates Tonneau
Bates Automobile Co. Lansing, MI
1903-1905

1905 Model Side Entrance Tonneau
Model Gas Engine Co. Auburn, IN
1903-1909

1905 Union Side Entrance Tonneau
Union Automobile Co. Union City, IN
1902-1905

1905 Crown Advertising
Detroit Auto Vehicle Co. Detroit, MI
1905

1905 Studebaker Gasoline
Studebaker Corp. South Bend, IN
1902-1954

1905 Apperson Side Entrance Tonneau wth Cover
Apperson Bros. Automobile Co. Kokomo, IN
1902-1924

1905 Ariel Convertible
The Ariel Motor Car Co. Boston, MA
1905-1907

1905 Hershell-Spillman
TonnauHerschell-Spillman Co. North Tonawanda, NY
1904-1907

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1905 Randall 365 lb. Midget
Charles Randall, San Jose, CA

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1905 Columbus Electric
Columbus Buggy Co. Columbus, OH
1903-1913

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