Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917 / With an analysis of the standing and prospects of the automobile industry

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• Abbott Corporation, 96-221
• Accessories; importance in the automobile industry, 120
• Advertising; influence in popularizing automobiles, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 97
• Aid by dealers in promoting automobile industry, 143, 144
• Ajax Rubber Tire Co., 178, 179, 182, 188, 190
• Alliance Rubber Tire Co., 182, 188
• Allison, Robert, purchaser of first American gasoline car, 76
• Allen Motor Car Co., 96, 221
• Aluminum, extent of use in automobiles, 44
• American Automobile Association, 35, 133, 135
• American Motors Corporation, 95, 182, 188, 221
• America’s part in inventing fundamentals of the automobile, 77
• America’s part in the first commercialization of the automobile, 78
• Apperson Brothers, 115, 194, 221
• Appreciation in value of automobile stocks, 201, 202
• Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, 37, 38, 39, 109, 112, 135
• Attitude of people toward the automobile in 1893-8, 75
• Auburn Automobile Co., 95, 221
• Auto Body Co., 193
• Automobile, accessories and tire securities traded in on New York Curb 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1916, 187-191
• Automobile market for 1917, estimated, 215, 216, 217, 218
• Automobiles, commercial—names, capacity, maker, price, 231-242
• Automobile securities traded in on New York Stock Exchange, 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1916, 178-183
• Automobiles, passenger—names, cylinders, maker, price, 221- 229
• Average price all motor vehicles, 1916, 100, 139, 174, 175
• Average price of automobile and tire stocks traded in on New York Stock Exchange 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1916, 185
• Average price of automobile tire and accessories stocks traded in on New York Curb 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1916, 192
• Benefits of the automobile in affording first hand knowledge—social and economic value, 155-166
• Ben-Hur Motor Co., 96, 221
• Benz, builder of first internal combustion road vehicle, 69, 74, 77
• Blanchard, Thomas, early American auto builder, 62
• Bollee, Frenchman who attained highest efficiency in early automobile construction, 64, 65, 67
• Bouton, French maker of gasoline cars, 72, 78
• Brady, A. F., early automobile capitalist, 108
• Brush Automobile Co., 201
• Buick Motor Co., 95, 221
• Cadillac Motor Co., 93, 95, 115, 222
• Capital invested in automobiles, 141
• Case, J. I., T. M. Co., 95, 222
• Chalmers Motor Car Co., 96, 115, 118, 181, 187, 193, 196, 222
• Chandler Motor Co., 96, 178, 179, 182, 188, 190, 222
• Character of American people largely responsible for automobile’s commercial success, 89, 90
• Chevrolet Motor Co., 96, 181, 187, 193, 205, 222
• Chromium—value in automobile construction, 129
• Cole Motor Car Co., 96, 222
• Columbia Motor Co., 201, 222
• Columbia Automobile Co. of New Jersey, 108
• Companies whose securities are not generally traded in, 184, 185
• Consolidated Car Co., 194
• Continental Motors, 193
• Consolidated Rubber Tire Co., 182, 188
• Co-operation in automobile industry, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137
• Crow-Elkhart Motor Car Co., 96, 221
• Cugnot, Nicholas Joseph, inventor of first automobile, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 77, 78
• Cunningham, Jas. Son & Co., 96, 222
• Daimler, Gottlieb, inventor of hot tube ignition, 69, 70, 77
• Decrease in average price of automobiles, 28, 100, 175
• De Dion, French maker of gasoline cars, 72, 78
• Depreciation in automobile stocks, 201, 202
• Detroit Automobile Co., 93
• Difficulty in getting capital, 142
• Distribution of leading motor cars by states, 213
• Doble, builder of steam cars, 118, 223
• Dodge Brothers, 96, 194, 223
• Dorris Motor Car Co., 95, 223
• Dort Motor Car Co., 96, 223
• Drexel Motor Car Corporation, 96, 223
• Duryea, Charles E., builder of first gasoline automobile in America that ran (frontispiece), 72, 74, 76, 92, 93
• Economy of factory operation, 43, 130, 131, 132
• Edmunds & Jones Corporation, 197
• Electric automobiles; when first sold in commercial quantities in the United States, 78
• Electric Vehicle Co., 182, 188
• Electric Vehicle Co. of New Jersey, 69, 114
• Elgin Motor Car Co., 96, 223
• Emerson Motors Co., 181, 187, 201, 223
• Enger Motor Car Co., 182, 188, 223
• Enthusiasm part in industry’s success, 92
• Essex Motor Co., 183, 189
• Evans, Oliver, first known American experimenter with steam automobile, 57, 58, 59, 60, 72
• Falls Motor Co., 181, 187
• Federal Motor Truck Co., 194, 234
• Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 193, 199
• First automobile ever made, 50, 51, 52, 53
• First auto race in America, 73
• First auto race in the world, 73
• First automobile run on a road with any success, 56
• First chaise propelled by other than horse power, 50
• First electric automobile built and first sold in the United States, 71, 118
• First automobile built in America that ran; first sold in the United States, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 118
• First modern steam car built in the United States; first sold in the United States, 70, 118
• First use of internal combustion to drive piston in cylinder, 50
• Fisher Body Corporation, 183, 189, 197, 198
• Fisk Tire Co., 183, 189, 200
• Ford, Henry (frontispiece), 37, 38, 39, 74, 76, 81, 83, 92, 93, 94, 98, 101, 102, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115
• Ford Motor Co., 94, 95, 194, 224
• Ford Motor Company of Canada, 193, 195, 224
• Ford Tractor Co., 201
• Franklin, Benjamin Frontispiece,
• Franklin, H. H. Mfg. Co., 95, 115, 195, 224
• Frederick, J. George, quotation, 148, 149
• Future of automobile accessories, 216, 217
• Future of automotive inventions in rural districts, 124, 125
• Future of commercial automobiles, 116, 117
• Future of electric automobile industry, 116
• Future of automobile industry as an investment, 145, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 216, 217
• Future of the tire industry and stocks, 217
• Future trend of automobile securities, 206, 207, 209
• General Motors Co., 29, 178, 179, 182, 183, 188, 189, 190, 193, 196, 197, 234
• Glide automobile, 95, 224
• Goodrich, B. F. Co., 178, 179, 182, 188, 190, 193
• Good roads; aid to automobile increase, 46, 47, 133, 166
• Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 193
• Gramm Motor Truck Co., 195, 234
• Grant Motor Car Corporation, 181, 187, 224
• Growth, record for rapidity held by automobile industry, 173
• Gurney, Goldsworthy, early English automobile builder, 63, 77
• Hancock, Walter, early English automobile builder, 63, 77
• Harroun Motors Corporation 96, 201, 224
• Haynes Automobile Co., 195, 224
• Haynes, Elwood, builder of third successful gasoline car made in America, 74, 76, 77, 92, 93, 94, 115
• High and low prices during 1916 of representative mining, steel, industrial and railroad groups of securities compared with similar groups in automobile field, 204
• Horses, what each consumes and number in United States, 168
• Hudson Motor Car Co., 96, 225
• Hupp Motor Car Corporation 96, 225, 181, 187
• Imperial Carbon Chaser Co., 181, 187
• Increase in production of motor trucks, 100, 139, 140
• Increase of population in United States in 16 years, 91
• Increase of wealth in United States in 12 years, 91
• Intercon. Rubber Co., 183, 189
• Inter. Motors Co., 189
• Interstate Motor Co., 96, 225
• James, W. H., English inventor and auto builder, 61, 62, 77
• Kelly Springfield Tire Co., 178, 179, 183, 189, 190, 202, 205
• Kelsey Wheel, 183, 189
• Keystone Tire & Rubber Co., 181, 187
• Kissel Motor Car Co., 96, 195
• Knight, inventor of motor, 77, 229
• Lee Tire & Rubber Co., 178, 179, 183, 189, 190, 205
• Leland, of the Cadillac Co., 115
• Levassor, who solved problem of road shock, 72, 77
• Lexington motor car, 96, 225
• Locomobile Company of America, 95, 225
• Madison Motors Co., 96, 226
• Machining, part played by, 43, 44, 130
• Maibohm Motors Co., 96, 226
• Marmon automobile, 95, 226
• Maxwell-Briscoe, 201
• Maxwell Motor Co., 96, 178, 179, 190, 193, 201, 226
• McDonald, J. B., purchaser first electric automobile built, 71
• Mechanical imperfections of early automobiles, 61
• Metropolitan Motors Co., 183, 189
• Mitchell Motors Co., 95, 181, 187, 195, 226
• Moline-Knight, 95, 226
• Monarch Motor Car Co., 96, 226
• Money-earning possibilities of automobile investments now the greatest, 174
• Moon Motor Car Co., 96, 226, 237
• Morrison, William, builder first electric automobile, 71
• Motor Products Co., 183, 189, 197, 198
• Murdock, William, builder of model of second automobile, 54, 55, 56
• Mutual Motors Co., 195
• National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, 28, 29, 30, 38, 135
• National Auto Corporation, 181, 187
• National Motor Car & Vehicle Corporation, 196, 227
• Newer entrants into securities market, 200, 201
• Non-Skid chain, 122
• Non-Skid tread, 123
• Number of automobile manufacturers who failed, 30, 97, 106
• Number of automobiles produced in 1903, 30
• Number of automobiles produced in 1907, 33
• Number of automobiles produced in 1908, 34
• Number of automobiles produced in 1909-10-11-12-13-14-15-16, 30, 34, 100, 139, 150
• Number of commercial vehicles produced in 1915, 146
• Number of commercial vehicles produced in 1916, 28, 140, 147
• Number of farms in United States, 146
• Number of miles of roads improved and unimproved in United States, 168
• Number of passenger automobiles produced in 1916, 28
• Number of people in United States with incomes over $1,800, 41
• Number of people in United States with incomes over $1,200, 41
• Number of “rich” people in the United States, 145
• Oakland Motor Car Co., 96, 227
• Ohio Electric Car Co., 96, 227
• Olds, successful American auto builder, 81, 95, 115, 227
• Opposition, early, to automobile “craze”, 104, 105
• Otto, inventor of gas engine, 69, 113
• Output of automobile makers, how planned, 41
• Packard Motor Car Co., 95, 193, 227, 238
• Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co., 96, 193, 227
• Panhard, French maker of gasoline cars, 72, 78
• Pecqueur, discoverer of principle of “differential”, 62, 63, 77
• Peerless Motor Car Co., 95, 181, 187, 227
• Percentage gain automobile production 1915 over 1914, 28
• Percentage gain automobile production 1916 over 1915, 28
• Per cent of value added by manufacture to automobiles, 82
• Period of automobile industry’s greatest development in the United States, 76
• Perlman Rim Corporation, 183, 189, 197, 198
• Peugeot, French maker of gasoline cars, 72, 78
• Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co., 95, 181, 187, 195, 197, 227
• Pope Manufacturing Co., 108, 182, 188
• Portage Rubber Co., 193
• Premier Motor Corporation, 95, 228
• Present trend of automobile, accessories and tire securities, 205, 206, 228
• Princess Motor Car Corporation, 183, 189, 228
• Prospects when war ends for automobile industry, 47, 48
• Pullman Motor Car Co., 95, 228
• Quantity production of automobiles, 41, 43, 92, 98, 101
• Rate of growth of automobile production and registration compared with population, 208
• Ratio of voting men to each registered automobile in United States, 210, 211
• “Rauch & Lang” automobile, 95, 228
• Regal Motor Car Co., 96, 228
• Registration of automobiles; increase since 1906, 174
• Reliability contests; value of, 34, 35, 36
• Reo Motor Car Co., 96, 193, 228, 239
• Republic Motor Truck Co., 181, 187, 189, 195, 239
• Republic Rubber Co., 193
• Retail sales of motor vehicles in 1916, 28
• Riker, builder of steam cars, 78, 115, 118, 239
• Rims, demountable, 123
• Roper, S. H., builder of first modern steam car in United States, 70
• Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., 178, 180, 190
• Ryan, Thomas F., early automobile capitalist, 108
• Sampson, 201
• Saturation, point of, not imminent, 31, 145, 146, 151, 176, 209, 214
• Saxon Motors Co., 96, 178, 180, 183, 189, 190, 228
• Scripps-Booth Corporation, 96, 181, 187, 228
• Securities, leading examples of prices, terms and promotion plans on which they were put out, 195-200
• Securities, trading in, Cleveland Stock Exchange, 193
• Securities, trading in, Detroit Stock Exchange, 193
• Selden, Geo. B., first patentor of gasoline motor, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 77, 104, 114
• Selden “patent”, 37, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114
• Self-starter, the, 44, 45, 122
• Serpollet, made use of dry steam possible, 73, 77
• Sliding transmission, 123
• Society of Automotive Engineers, 44, 135
• Smith Motor Truck Co., 181, 187
• Spark plug, chambered, 123
• Springfield Body Co., 181, 187
• Standardization of manufacture of automobiles, 82, 97, 99, 100, 135, 136
• Standard Motor Co., 181, 187, 239
• Stanley, builder of steam cars, 78, 118, 119, 228, 240
• Stearns, B. F. Co., 95, 115, 195, 229
• Stocks of automobile companies; when they became known in the legitimate market, 173
• Stoddard-Dayton, 201
• Stromberg Carburetor Co., 181, 187
• Studebaker Corporation, 95, 178, 180, 182, 188, 190, 193, 202, 205, 229, 240
• Stutz Motor Car Co., 96, 178, 180, 183, 189, 190, 229
• Supremacy of United States in automobile industry, 79, 80, 81, 82, 102
• Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co., 193
• Thomas, E. R., Motor Car Co., 95, 115, 229, 240
• Time payment plan in buying automobiles, 40, 41
• Time required to develop automobile, 49
• Times Square Auto Supply Co., 183, 189
• Tires, rubber; history of, 74, 120, 121, 122, 140
• Tires, solid, 123
• Tractors, economical value and future, 147, 148, 149
• Transue & Williams Steel Forging Co., 197, 199
• Trevithick, Richard, early English automobile maker, 56, 57, 58, 77
• Tungsten, value in automobile construction, 129
• United Alloy Steel Corporation, 197, 198, 199
• United Motors Co., 182, 187, 205, 240
• United States Motors Co., 182, 188, 201, 240
• United States Rubber Co., 178, 180, 190, 200
• Universal Motor Co., 183, 189
• Value of automobiles produced 1899 to 1916, 139
• Value of automobiles produced 1907 to 1909, 34
• Value of motor trucks produced in 1916, 28
• Value of passenger cars produced in 1916, 28
• Vanadium; value in automobile construction, 129
• Velie Motors Corporation, 96, 229
• War orders for automobile trucks, 1913-14, 47
• War orders for automobile trucks, 1914-15, 47
• War use of trucks; value in warfare, 169-170
• Watt, James, inventor of steam engine, 51
• When early automobile had a “vogue” in England, 63
• When French began selling automobiles in quantity, 78
• White, inventor of generator for steam cars, 77, 78, 95, 118, 119
• White Motor Co., 95, 178, 180, 183, 189, 190, 193, 229, 241
• Whitney, William O., early automobile capitalist, 108
• Why early English automobiles failed, 64
• Why gasoline cars are preferred, 118
• Widener, P. A. B., early automobile capitalist, 108
• Willys-Overland Co., 42, 43, 81, 95, 115, 178, 180, 182, 188, 190, 196, 227, 229
• Winton, Alexander, sold first American gasoline car, 76, 78, 93, 94, 95, 115
• Winton Co., 195, 229
• Women as auto owners and drivers, 45, 46, 123
• Year automobile industry entered “billion dollar class”, 27
• Year of start of automobile business as a “real” industry, 33