Acme car ready to go, 1909 Glidden Tour, Detroit, Michigan
Description:
View of an Acme car, sign on hood reads "Secretary and starter, 1909 tour Acme Car No. 96." Starter Ferguson standing inside car, surrounded by a crowd of men in suits and straw hats, police officers directing crowd to the right, at start of the sixth annual Glidden Tour (i.e., Sixth Annual Reliability Run of the American Automobile Association), at Detroit, Michigan, July 12, 1909. Photo edges cut unevenly. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York."
