Driver and passenger in Rapid Truck, 1908 Glidden Tour

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Description

View of driver and passenger in Rapid truck during 1908 Glidden Tour. Signs on truck read: "The remarkable Rapid wearing Goodyear tires & carrying Goodyear air bottles, free air for the afflicted. Glidden Tour '08. This ton car is carrying 25% overload." Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York." Handwritten on back: "Motor trucks--Rapid."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na009560
Subject:: Trucks; Rapid Motor Vehicle Company; Glidden Tour (1908); Photographers--New York (State)--New York; Photographic prints
Date:: 1908
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 7.75 x 9.25 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Motor trucks--Rapid #2
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.