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  Glidden Tour - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Glidden Tours name was given to the AAA tour when Charles J. Glidden, a financier and automobile enthusiast, presented the AAA with a grand silver trophy # [1] (http://www.vmcca.org/bh/cjg.html) to be given as a prize to the winner of the 1905 tour.
The tours were gruelling events as cars broke axles and other parts, encountered roads that today would not be considered passable by the average vehicle and got into everything from minor to serious accidents.
The Glidden Tours were revived in 1946 by the Veteran Motor Car Club of America and have continued since with antique cars traveling premarked routes and stopping in local towns to show off their vehicles, many people dressed in period costume.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Glidden_Tour   (375 words)

  
 MOBILEXHIBIT: Glidden Color Tour
We wanted consumers to feel Glidden is there to help with their projects from start to finish.
Glidden, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, is a leading manufacturer of architectural paints.
Glidden is part of ICI Paints, a $3.5 billion global coatings manufacturer with 60 manufacturing sites in 25 countries and more than 19,000 employees worldwide.
www.mobilexhibit.com /glidden.html   (793 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Glidden Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
They were named after Charles J. Glidden, a financier and automobile enthusiast, who presented the AAA with a trophy first awarded to the winner of the 1905 tour.
The tours went several hundred miles in the US and occasionally into Canada with time limits between check points and a point scoring system to determine a winner of each event.
The Glidden Tours were revived in 1946 by the Veteran Motor Car Club of America (VMCCA) and have continued since with antique cars traveling premarked routes and stopping in local towns to show off their vehicles, many people dressed in period costume.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Glidden-Tour   (568 words)

  
 cars - Glidden Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Glidden Tours name was given to the AAA tour when Charles J. Glidden, a financier and automobile enthusiast, presented the AAA with a grand silver trophy # [1] to be given as a prize to the winner of the 1905 tour.
The tours were gruelling events as cars broke axles and other parts, encountered roads that today would not be considered passable by the average vehicle and got into everything from minor to serious accidents.
The Glidden Tours were revived in 1946 by the Veteran Motor Car Club of America and have continued since with antique cars traveling premarked routes and stopping in local towns to show off their vehicles, many people dressed in period costume.
www.carluvers.com /cars/Glidden_Tour   (361 words)

  
 Pierce-Arrow - Classic Car History
The Glidden Tours were actually the beginnings of the American rally or regularity run.
Jaspar Glidden, one of the developers of the Bell Telephone system, laid out a long distance course between cities, arranged hotel stopovers, and awarded a trophy to that car that completed the rough cross-country tour closest to schedule.
In a sense, it was the popularity of the Glidden tours that focused the attention of the American public on the necessity for good roads, and our fine highway system today can be traced to the interest in touring that Jaspar Glidden inaugurated with his contests.
www.oldandsold.com /articles01/article823.shtml   (840 words)

  
 A Tour of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Captain Glidden was a wealthy ship owner, merchant, and an original director of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Glidden lived in Newcastle and Boston and was frequently in England, a possible source of acquaintance with the British architect Henry Vaughan.
Vaughan came to America on Glidden's packet Atlantic Clipper and lived with the Gliddens in the large, white house on Glidden Street, called Riverside.
standrews-newcastle.org /tour.html   (1230 words)

  
 Cicero Buck Tour Diary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Glidden House is mentioned and Boss decides to call and see what he can do about the rate.
You see, maybe the tour wasn't so much about getting out and playing as it was about getting out and seeing and doing.
So, although the tour is coming to an end, we are really only at the beginning of being Cicero Buck and letting the music come forth.
www.americana-uk.com /2002/12/today-is-sunday-were-in-upstate-new.html   (1163 words)

  
 AAA Exchange
Of all the sponsors, Charles J. Glidden, a wealthy New England industrialist and avid automobile supporter, became the most notable when he offered a $2,000 trophy to AAA to be competed for by the touring cars.
Like the run to St. Louis, the annual Glidden Tours were charted over mountains and rough roads and were considered the most grueling test for automobiles until the Indianapolis 500 began in 1911.
The annual tours were revived in 1946 by the Veteran Motor Car Club of America and are a showcase activity of the antique car hobby.
www.aaapublicaffairs.com /Main/Default.asp?CategoryID=3&SubCategoryID=4&ContentID=95   (931 words)

  
 Western Trails Project - The Advent of Automobiles Online Exhibit - Kansas State Historical Society
Touring the countryside by automobile became a new leisure time activity.
The annual Glidden Reliability Tours, organized by entrepreneur Charles Jasper Glidden from 1905 to 1913, helped popularize automobile travel by demonstrating the dependability of automobiles for long roadtrips.
Early touring drivers needed information about the existing roads that included an assessment of whether they were suitable for automobile use.
www.kshs.org /research/collections/documents/online/westerntrails/exhibits/automobiles.htm   (413 words)

  
 Door County, Wisconsin Beach Resort - Glidden Lodge
Glidden Lodge Beach Resort is about two miles south of Whitefish Dunes State Park with its many hiking trails, ski trails and sand beach.
Enjoy fine dining next door at Donny's Glidden Lodge Restaurant or visit one of Door County's many excellent dining establishments within a short drive of the Resort.
The goal of the staff at Glidden Lodge Beach Resort is to provide you with a one-of-a-kind experience that will bring you back time and again.
www.gliddenlodge.com   (381 words)

  
 E-M-F Homepage - Advertising - Postcards
The name "Glidden" comes from Charles J. Glidden, a wealthy New England industrialist and avid automobile supporter, who became the most notable when he offered a $2,000 trophy to the AAA to be competed for by the touring cars.
After the 1913 tour, it was felt that the purposes that had given rise to its birth had been fulfilled, and the activity ended.
The 1909 version of the tour would be longest thus far in the series at approximately 2636 miles.
www.dreamwater.org /emfauto/advertising/postcards.html   (4537 words)

  
 CHVA joins VMCCA 04
Although the Glidden is now more than a month behind us, things are still going on.
All those on the tour were asked to fill out an evaluation form; collected by our National President Dorothy Houdek.
The surprise success story of the tour was selling the table decorations to The Chateau on the Lake and making a nice profit.
clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/vmccakc/GliddenTour04Update.htm   (682 words)

  
 Connecticut Valley Region: AACA/VMCCA
One of the contributing factors that made a tour possible was that the Firestone Company had reproduced some of the special tire molds required for making the various old style treads and sizes needed to put the antique cars on the road.
The original Glidden Tours were conducted annually from 1905 through 1913 by the American Automobile Association for the purpose of proving to the public that automobiles were not merely rich men’s toys but were a new, practical, and reliable means of transportation.
Since 1950, the Glidden Tours have continued to be sponsored alternatively by the VMCCA and the AACA.
www.cvr.citymax.com /page/page/642802.htm   (2919 words)

  
 Pictures from the  2006 AAA Glidden Tour in Rapid City
Pictures from the 2006 AAA Glidden Tour in Rapid City, SD, September 17-22, 2006.
Glidden tour veteran poses in front of his rare 33 Buick 90
Bill Johnson, tour director Dwayne Breyer, and Jane Johnson at the tour banquet.
www.vmcca.org /2006GliddenPix.htm   (498 words)

  
 PGATOUR.com - Brad Faxon, Rich Beem, Greg Norman, Champions Tour
Perry's caddie is friend Billy Glidden, a drag racer from Whiteland, Ind. Perry and Glidden met a few years ago and hit it off, and he invited Glidden to come with him to England, where Perry is playing in his first British Open in 12 years.
Glidden, the son of drag racing icon Bob Glidden, said he has exchanged lessons with Perry.
On Wednesday, Glidden was pacing off yardages and retrieving balls during Perry's practice rounds like he had done it all his life.
www.golfweb.com /story/6483677   (1007 words)

  
 Green Car Club Forums - Father and Son team tour Ireland & Scandanavia
My long-dead cousin Charles Jasper Glidden, dubbed ìUlysses of the motor car,î was the first guy to drive around the world in an automobile.
At the same time I'm not at all pro-car, like he was; in fact, I'm much opposed to cars swamping the cities of the world, killing an average of 600 thousand people a year, and contributing to a score of environmental problems--not the least of which is global warming.
It connects Glidden, myself, and Andrew through some kind of genetic predisposition that the British travel writer Bruce Chatwin called ìinsane restlessness.î On the road I intend to explore this deep connectedness that animates generations across time.
www.nesea.org /greencarclub/forums/showthread.php?s=b785de667f7eda8e7e272646e9e82bf5&threadid=137   (663 words)

  
 The Car Connection - Hershey: Motordom’s Mecca - An unbelievable, barely contained universe of car history — all in ...
The Glidden Tour was started in 1904 by the American Automobile Association to demonstrate that cars were reliable and could be driven cross-country.
The original annual Glidden lasted until 1913, by which time American car ownership had increased from one in 1000 population to 35 and such demonstrations were no longer deemed necessary.
The 1946 Glidden revival was aimed at re-energizing car collecting after the war by the Veteran Motor Car Club of America (VMCCA), founded in Boston in 1938.
www.thecarconnection.com /index.asp?article=7690&pf=1   (1621 words)

  
 Tacoma School District - Webucator
This workshop is open only to teachers who book a tour for their students during the upcoming October-November 2003 "Science of Art" weeks.
The tour cost for students is $5 per child.
Arlington Elementary kindergarten teacher, Rose Moisio, was notified that she had been named a winner in the Fourth Annual Glidden "Colorful Classrooms Campaign." A video was taped of both morning and afternoon classes making a "color" book and then singing a "color" song as their entry to this contest.
www.tacoma.k12.wa.us /distinfo/webucator/WebucatorArchives/09-08-2003.asp   (663 words)

  
 Antique Automobile Club of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Glidden was born in 1857 in Lowell, Massachusetts, into a family that originally reached New Hampshire in 1664.
This commercialism of the Glidden Tour was so rampant that they were stopped after only eight years.
The 58th AAA Revival Glidden Tour® will be held in Madison, Alabama, in September 2003 and will be hosted by the North Alabama Region, AACA.
geocities.com /motorcity/downs/9427/charlesglidden.html   (525 words)

  
 BILLY GLIDDEN TO CADDIE IN THE PGA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Long time drag racer Billy Glidden has decided to pursue a career as a caddie for Kenny Perry on the PGA tour and maintain a limited racing schedule in 2004.
Glidden expressed to MW his gratitude to all his fans and fellow racers.
Glidden is known as a very well accomplished golfer himself and developed a friendship with Perry several years ago.
www.mustangweekly.com /2004/april/news/n04-1-3rd.asp   (253 words)

  
 Antique Automobile Club of America
AAA Glidden Tour - Gettysburg, PA. Hosted by Gettysburg Region
AACA Western Divisional Tour - Sonoma County, CA.
AACA Central Divisional Tour - Central and SW North Dakota.
www.aaca.org   (190 words)

  
 The Cullman Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Glidden tours happen each year in different parts of the country and are hub tours, said registrar Ron Barnett.
Thursday the group will tour Pulaski, Tenn. Friday offers the theme for this year's tour, "A Cotton Pickin' Good Time," when tour members will visit a farm in Madison County to pick their own cotton and learn how cotton is ginned.
The tour is open to members of the Antique Automobile Club of America and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America who have 1935 or older cars.
www.cullmantimes.com /story_print?id=442   (272 words)

  
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It should be duly noted that the tour director did miss a turn, and perhaps it would have gone unnoticed if every one had been driving separately.
Now if he had had his EMF, which is similar to the "Pathfinder" used on a Glidden tour, he would have been able to motor out of his predicament.
Some of the other tour highlights included visiting the Drake Well Park and Museum, having a catered lunch at McConnell's Mill, viewing Dave Berg's car collection, traveling to the two Victorian towns of Mercer and Franklin, and especially enjoying the luncheon at the Franklin Club.
www.hcca.org /tours/EMF/details.html   (377 words)

  
 Czech Orchestra Makes Stop at OU as Part of First Tour to United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Accompanying the orchestra on tour is solo pianist Michiko Otaki.
When Otaki is not on tour, she teaches various music classes at Clayton State College in Atlanta.
When he found out she was touring with the Brno Chamber Orchestra, he was interested in getting the orchestra to perform at OU, Dimmerman said.
thepost.baker.ohiou.edu /archives/030196/czech.html   (419 words)

  
 Business Wire: AAA Ready to Welcome Home Nation's Premier Antique Auto Tour During Oct. 28 Celebration
The name AAA Glidden Tour comes from Charles Jasper Glidden's 1905 sponsorship of a magnificent silver trophy awarded each year to the drivers of the winning vehicle.
The Revival AAA Glidden Tours commenced in 1946 for antique auto enthusiasts under the sponsorship of the Veteran Motor Car Club of America -- which holds all rights to the event and alternates tour sponsorship each year with the Antique Automobile Club of America.
The AAA Glidden Reserve Trophy was won by a 1931 Ford Model A Roadster driven by Ray and Nancy O'Hanlon of Montrose, New York.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Oct_28/ai_93425458   (854 words)

  
 greatnorthwoods.org - 1998 Lancaster Glidden Tour Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lancaster Glidden Tour - Part 1 - New 12/30/98
Lancaster Glidden Tour - Part 2 - New 12/30/98
Lancaster Glidden Tour - Part 3 - New 12/30/98
www.greatnorthwoods.org /lancaster/19980929gliddentour   (79 words)

  
 ETR & AACA Activities Calendar
May 21: Tour to Tellico Village led by Bob Edgemon ending at the Tacomas and Feinsods for a hamburger cookout - your hosts will be Bob and Shirley Tacoma and Art and Jean Feinsod.
July 16 and 17: Annual Overnight Tour to Dillsboro, GA with luch in Cherokee, NC and dinner at the famous Jarrett House - hosted by the McCambells, Moats and Simerlys.
September25: Tour to Tellico Plains and the Charles Hall museum with a tour of a private car collection along the way.
home.usit.net /~etregion/id6.html   (651 words)

  
 Model T No. 7299   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The car has a five Glidden tour plaques on the dash for the years 1951 through 1955.
Inside the tool box were some small parts George had carried around with the car on tour.
This is only the fifth one of these plugs I have ever seen - the other four are in Henry Ford's 1907 experimental tractor that is currently on the floor of the Museum in Dearborn.
oz.plymouth.edu /~trentb/ModelT/T7299/T7299.html   (347 words)

  
 AAA celebrates 100th year with antique auto tour - 2002-10-28
Heathrow-based AAA is celebrating its 100th year by putting on an automobile touring event like the ones it held from 1904 to 1913, AAA announced Monday.
Back then, the tours held in various U.S. locations were to show the dependability of the automobile and encourage development of motoring services, AAA says.
The tour is named after Charles Jasper Glidden's 1905 sponsorship of the silver trophy given each year to the driver of the winning vehicle.
boston.bizjournals.com /orlando/stories/2002/10/28/daily5.html   (624 words)

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