Researcher, Historian, and Author Royal Feltner Welcome to his World of the Early American Automobile Industry From 1861-1929 This is the largest automobile web site on the internet with over 7000 photographs of automobiles, advertsements, and related material representing well over one thousand different manufacturers with dates and places of operations and technical information from 1861-1929. There are over 1200 advertisements with pictures of the cars. This web site is constructed for advanced researchers as well as for the ordinary person seeking information on certain cars. Best of all, it is free for everyone with no advertising.
Eight automobiles were built in Amesbury. These are the three most famous and they first appeared on this web site.
In 1905, a reporter for the Automotive Industry Magazine was covering the Boston Automobile Show and was trying to desctibe a certain model. This is what he wrote: "Almost all cars look so much alike these days that No One can tell the difference in them from a little distance, The only notable feature that I can see on this car is the the radiator" There were over a hundred exhibitors at the show. As much as I would like to help, I cannot tell what a model is by looking at a picture. In every industry, there are scoundrels who would go to any length to abscond funds from unsuspecting victims. The greatest one was E.J. Pennington who was a mastermind at deception. Read about him and who he fleeced here in this country and England Updated every day with more images and information Researched and web site published by All letters are answered. Please visit my Amesbury City, Ma. web site at City of Amesbury where I now live and my home state of Kentucky web site where I was born and raised.
|