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- Description:
- Photograph of first steam car built by R. E. Olds, Lansing, 1886. In 1893, it was sold to an English firm and shipped to their branch house in Bombay, India. It was the first sale of a self-propelled road vehicle ever made in Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- R. E. Olds and an unidentified passenger in the second of Olds' steam-powered horseless carriages. This vehicle was covered in an 1892 issue of "Scientific American," and as a result the Francis Times Co. of London purchased the vehicle for their Bombay, India, branch. Information from "R. E. Olds and Industrial Lansing" by Michael Rodriguez, page 32.
- Date Created:
- 1892-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of first steam car built by R. E. Olds, Lansing, 1886. In 1893, it was sold to an English firm and shipped to their branch house in Bombay, India. It was the first sale of a self-propelled road vehicle ever made in Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- R. E. Olds and an unidentified passenger in the second of Olds' steam-powered horseless carriages. This vehicle was covered in an 1892 issue of "Scientific American," and as a result the Francis Times Co. of London purchased the vehicle for their Bombay, India, branch. Information from "R. E. Olds and Industrial Lansing" by Michael Rodriguez, page 32.
- Date Created:
- 1892-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
