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	America's First Automobile Race, 1895
		A little over 10 hours later, Frank Duryea was the first to cross the finish line having survived a journey punctured by numerous breakdowns and repairs.
		Duryea's account appears in Duryea, Frank, America's First Automobile (1942); Berkebile, Don H., The 1893 Duryea Automobile, Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology vol.
		The Duryea brothers formed the Duryea Motor Co. in 1895.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /duryea.htm (944 words)

	Duryea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Duryea Duryea was the first Duryea Motor Wagon, began production in 1893.
		Duryea, Pennsylvania Duryea is a borough located in 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 4,634.
		Duryea Motor Wagon The Duryea Motor Wagon was the first standardized 1920s.
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	Duryea Motor Wagon
		The Duryea Motor Wagon was the first standardized automobile.
		15 Motor Wagons were built by the Duryea company of Springfield, Massachusetts between 1893 and 1896.
		Before this time, all automobiles were one-off individual models, but it is not clear whether this vehicle, or the Benz Velo, was produced first in numbers.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/du/duryea_motor_wagon.html (117 words)

	Duryea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Duryea was the first American automobile manufacturer, trailing the French Panhard firm by just 4 years.
		Charles Duryea and his brother Frank Duryea lived in Springfield, Massachusetts.
		Their first vehicle, the Duryea Motor Wagon, began production in 1893.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/d/du/duryea.html (59 words)

	World's Greatest Cars - Duryea Motor Wagon - AutosWalk.com In-Depth Articles
		Though Duryea wasn't confident enough in his machine to stage his first drive in downtown Springfield, he obviously was confident enough to have a reporter on hand to chronicle what transpired.
		The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, with headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts, was officially organized in September 1895, but the victory in the first American race gave the new concern significantly more momentum.
		The Duryea Manufacturing Company was incorporated for that purpose in 1898 with some of the funds apparently coming from his sale of shares in the Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
	www.autoswalk.com /news/article/10/21.html (1612 words)

	Co-Brand: Driving Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Though Duryea wasn't confident enough in his machine to stage his first drive in downtown Springfield, he obviously was confident enough to have a reporter on hand to chronicle what transpired.
		The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, with headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts, was officially organized in September 1895, but the victory in the first American race gave the new concern significantly more momentum.
		The Duryea Manufacturing Company was incorporated for that purpose in 1898 with some of the funds apparently coming from his sale of shares in the Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
	www.drivingtoday.com /cobrand/greatest_cars/duryea (1540 words)

	lets race, Duryea racing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Duryea Motor Wagon Co., of Springfield, MA, entry, and a Mueller-Benz from Decatur, Illinois.
		One of the other Duryeas was involved in a traffic accident, and the driver was made an overnight guest of the City.
		Not only was the Duryea Motor Wagon Co., of Springfield, Massachusetts, the first automobile company this side of the pond, they also were the prototype factory racing team.
	www.duryea-peoria.com /letsrace.htm (587 words)

	Duryea Automobile
		Duryea is a director and stockholder in that company and gives personal supervision to their work.
		It is fitted with their regular motor, using the same mechanism as their motor trap, except that it uses primary batteries for ignition instead of small generators.
		This Duryea with its carriage lamps and other remnants of the horse and buggy days is truly one of the rare pioneers still around today.
	www.papasbarn.com /duryea/article2.html (2378 words)

	Irish Times Article - MarqueTime ...
		Though not well known to the general public, motoring historians generally attribute the birth of the American car industry to Charles and Frank Duryea, sons of German immigrants.
		In 1896 the fledgling Duryea Motor Wagon company, in what is accepted as the first series production of motor vehicles in America, produced and sold 13 identical cars.
		Through to 1909, when Duryea suffered a nervous breakdown and had to suspend his activities as chief engineer, the company produced a range of 4- and 6-cylinder cars which were built to a very high quality.
	ireland.com /newspaper/motoring/2005/0427/2191393688MOT27MARQUE.html (613 words)

	Articles - Charles Duryea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Charles Edgar Duryea ( December 15, 1861 - September 28, 1938) was a manufacturer of motor vehicles.
		Charles Duryea and his brother Frank ( 1869 - 1967) were bicycle makers in Washington, D.C. and later in Springfield, Massachusetts.
		In 1893 they tested their first gasoline powered automobile model and in 1896 established a company, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, to manufacture the Duryea model automobile, the first auto ever commercially manufactured.
	www.quickize.com /articles/Charles_Duryea (153 words)

	Information about U.S. Proofcard®: 32¢ 1893 Duryea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Influenced by an exhibit at the 1886 Ohio state fair, Charles Duryea, an American bicycle manufacturer, began to see the possibilities of creating a gasoline engine that would be compact enough to power a carriage or wagon.
		Duryea developed a carriage powered by a two-cycle, single-cylinder engine with the help of his brother Frank, a skilled machinist.
		That same year, Charles Duryea established the Duryea Motor Wagon Company and by 1896 the Duryeas had produced a total of 13 automobiles.
	www.unicover.com /EA4PA16Q.HTM (426 words)

	Duryea
		Up until now the Duryeas had built bicycles in Peoria, Illinois but Charles wished to build a automobile and so whilst he designed it, his younger brother J.Frank built the first prototype.
		In 1896 the American Automobile industry was born when 13 identical Duryea Motor Wagons were built with 8hp engines.
		In the same year in the Cosmopolitan race a Duryea was involved in the first recorded American automobile accident.
	www.3wheelers.com /duryea.html (305 words)

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		The Duryea was favorite one to win because of the earlier race which beat out Benz.
		Frank Duryea at the left at the tiller, and umpire Arthur W. White of Toronto beside him.
		Two brothers, Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea of Springfield, Mass., produced 13 matching Duryea "Motor Wagons" in 1896, this was the first time more than one vehicle was made from the same design, and marked the beginning of the U.S. auto industry.
	www.redmond.k12.or.us /obsidian/historypages/allanbruce/duryeaa.doc (403 words)

	The Duryea Automobile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1889, Illinois natives Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea came to the Springfield area.
		In 1898, Frank and Charles sold their interest in the company, and soon afterwards, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company was sold to the National Motor Carriage Company.
		In 1919, the company was reestablished without either of the Duryea brothers, but by 1925, it had ceased operations.
	www.quadrangle.org /duryea.htm (264 words)

	The Duryea Automobile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Germany, Daimler developed the small high speed motor which is admittedly the predecessor of present day practice.
		Benz, his countryman, confined himself more to the application of engines resembling stationary engines, and while very successful, so far as quantity of vehicles made and service rendered is considered, did not influence the industry as did Daimler whose inventions were taken up in France about 1892 or '93.
		It was Charles, in 1895, who organized The Duryea Motor Wagon Company - America's first company for the manufacture of gasoline cars.
	www.idavette.net /histfact/duryeab.htm (285 words)

	The Race of the CenturyBy Tracey E. Fern • Illustrated by Dick Gage
		His "motor wagon" had a two-cylinder engine, air-filled rubber tires, a braking system, and a lightweight body.
		Maneuvering to a stop, Duryea jumped into the slush and started tinkering, while his brother, who was following the race in a horse-drawn carriage, went to track down a flsmith.
		And a few minutes after that, he passed Duryea, who was still waiting for the flsmith to repair his steering arm.
	www.highlightsteachers.com /archives/printandread_stories/the_race_of_the_centuryby_tracey_e_fern_illustrated_by_dick_gage.html (974 words)

	TriplePlate.com - Antique Vintage's The Original Concepts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This 1896 Duryea on display at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich., was one of 13 built by Charles and Frank Duryea in Springfield, Mass.
		Riker electrics were produced by Riker Electric Motor Co. of Brooklyn NY from 1896 to 1899, then by Riker Electric Vehicle Co. of Elizabethsport NY until 1900 and finally by the Riker Motor Vehicle Co (still in Elizabethsport) after 1900, all named for Andrew Lawrence Riker.
		It was not a success as a motor car, but General Motors (and others) succeeded with the design principles on their diesel locomotives.
	www.tripleplate.com /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=11536 (9734 words)

	Duryea Automobiles
		At left is the oldest known, surviving, Peoria Duryea, and the third oldest of all Duryeas.
		In 1890, the Rouse Duryea Cycle Co., of Peoria, was incorporated.
		This second Duryea, to be known as the Chicago car, was entered in an early November 1895 race, to be held in Chicago.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/monster (2292 words)

	The Showroom of Automotive History: 1896 Duryea
		The first Duryea automobile, one of America's first gasoline-powered cars, was built in Chicopee, Massachusetts by brothers Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea in 1893.
		It was this vehicle, with Frank as the driver, that won the first motor car race in America, the Chicago Times-Herald race, on Thanksgiving Day in 1895.
		The automobile driven by J. Frank Duryea was the first to cross the finish line.
	www.hfmgv.org /exhibits/showroom/1896d/duryea.html (386 words)

	Duryea Motor Wagon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patent drawing for the Duryea Road Vehicle, 1895.
		The Duryea Motor Wagon was the first standardized automobile, and the first powered by gasoline.
		This page was last modified 02:24, 1 February 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duryea_Motor_Wagon (108 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Magazine / A Race to the Heavens
		One of his first creations was a two-passenger motorized carriage comprising basically a bench attached to four massive spoked wheels, with a 2-horsepower engine hanging underneath like a steel belly.
		In 1893, they premiered their "motor wagon," often regarded as the first viable internal-combustion car built in the United States.
		In 1904, Frank Duryea cofounded the Stevens-Duryea Co., which manufactured upward of 14,000 cars in Chicopee and East Springfield before closing its doors in 1915.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/06/27/a_race_to_the_heavens?pg=2 (557 words)

	More Than a Century on Wheels
		Horsewhip makers hooted over the idea that the Duryea brothers' loud, smelly motor wagon was supposed to put them out of business.
		Duryea Motor Wagon's car had big, wagon-like wheels, no top and a seat much like a buggy.
		Henry Ford founded Ford Motor Company in 1903 and sold his first Model A. In 1909, he put the Ford Model T on sale.
	www.asashop.org /autoinc/may2001/autos.htm (914 words)

	The Auto Channel--HISTORY:FOUR MAJOR AUTO INDUSTRY
		That changed in 1896 when the Duryea brothers, Frank and Charles, formed a company to build horseback carriages using mostly outside venture capital.
		After winning some early-day races, their company, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company produced 13 look-alike (albeit poor quality) autos and offered them for sale.
		In 1919, General Motors was the first auto maker to form its own credit organization and made it possible for GM dealers to not only sell the product but to arrange its financing on the showroom floor.
	www.theautochannel.com /F/news/writers/bhagin/1996/fe9635.html (962 words)

	Energy Time Line - Year 1890 to 1899 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Very first automobile regularly made for sale was completed by Charles Edgar Duryea in his Duryea Motor Wagon Company in Springfield, Mass.
		Boston resident Aubrey Eneas began his solar motor experimentation in 1892, formed the first solar power company (The Solar Motor Co.) in 1900, and continued his work until 1905.
		The ignition of the gas mixture in the cylinder is obtained by heating during the compression cycle.
	www.energyquest.ca.gov /time_machine/1890ce-1900ce.html (1138 words)

	Duryea Motor Wagon Company - Wikicars
		The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, established in 1895, was the first American firm to build gasoline automobiles.
		Frank Duryea, they operated the one-cylinder "Ladies Phaeton" chassis on September 21, 1893 at Springfield, Massachusetts.
		It is considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S. In 1895 a second Duryea driven by J. Frank Duryea won the Chicago Times-Herald race in Chicago on a snowy Thanksgiving day.
	www.wikicars.org /en/Duryea_Motor_Wagon_Company (306 words)

	CENTENIAL HISTORY of DECATUR and MACON COUNTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mueller's car, a Benz motor wagon, was imported from Mannheim, Germany.
		It was stated that if necessary the motor wagon could make the astonishing record of fifteen miles an hour!
		Mueller entered his motor wagon in the automobile contest held in Chicago by the Times-Herald.
	www.iltrails.org /macon/maconcentennial_p370.htm (825 words)

	duryea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Site devoted to the 3 Cylinder Duryea Automobiles made 1898-1907 Research shows the vintage of the 3 Cylinder Duryea Automobile orchestrated by Charles Duryea to be 1898-1907.
		Welcome to the Duryea Agency of Hunterdon, a firm of dedicated insurance professionals committed to providing our clients with caring, personalized service...
		Duryea, Duryea automobiles, and Peoria Illinois history of Charles E. Duryea, his automobiles, and the Duryea Manufacturing Co. Duryea, Duyrea automobiles, Mel Moffitt, Duryea Motor Wagon Co...
	duryea.networklive.org (524 words)

	CHARLES EDGAR DURYEA - PICTURE POST CARD SIGNED
		The inventor has signed beneath a 12-line history of the Duryea Motor Wagon Co. The firm, co-founded by Charles E. Duryea and his brother Frank in September 1895, was the first U.S. corporation for the manufacture of gasoline powered automobiles.
		From the caption: "The Duryea Motor Wagon Co. of Springfield [Massachusetts] was first U.S. motor car corp. Sept.
		Duryea Cars won America's first auto race, Chicago Nov. 28, 1895...#540648 granted to Charles E. Duryea June 11, 1895 antedated the first patents of all other U.S. automobile makers....
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/12_2001/business/CHARLES_EDGAR_DURYEA.htm (216 words)

	November History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		However, less than halfway through the race, a team of horses pulling a wagon, frightened by the racket from Frank's noisy car, bolted into the middle of the road and the Duryea automobile was forced off the road and into a ditch.
		On this day, the Ford Motor Company announced the introduction of the Model A, the first new Ford to enter the market since the Model T was first introduced in 1908.
		Charles and Frank Duryea of Peoria, Illinois, had completed America's first working gasoline-powered automobile in 1893, and to the Great Chicago Race, as it would come to be known, the brothers brought a vastly improved two-cylinder model.
	clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/cowtownmopars/HistoryNOV.html (10977 words)

	CHARLES EDGAR DURYEA - PICTURE POST CARD SIGNED
		The inventor has signed beneath a 12-line history of the Duryea Motor Wagon Co. The firm, co-founded by Charles E. Duryea and his brother Frank in September 1895, was the first U.S. corporation for the manufacture of gasoline powered automobiles.
		From the caption: " The Duryea Motor Wagon Co. of Springfield [Massachusetts] was first U.S. motor car corp. Sept.
		Duryea Cars won America's first auto race, Chicago Nov. 28, 1895...#540648 granted to Charles E. Duryea June 11, 1895 antedated the first patents of all other U.S. automobile makers....
	galleryofhistory.com /archive/12_2001/business/CHARLES_EDGAR_DURYEA.htm (222 words)

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