Official measuring Buick truck, 1911 Chicago Reliability Run
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Description
View of man measuring rear of Buick truck during 1911 reliability contest sponsored by the Chicago Motor Club. Contestants traveled on routes through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. Handwritten on front: "Measuring the Buick truck." Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "Measuring the Buick [undecipherable] carefully. Tours--Chicago Reliability Run, 1911."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na020242
- Subject:
- Trucks--Middle West
- Buick Motor Company
- Motor vehicle driving--Competitions--Middle West
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1911
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Tours--Chicago Reliability Run, 1911 #1
- Negative Number:
- Negative #C17,819
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.