John Scripps Booth and John Batterman posing in a JB Rocket cyclecar
View of John Scripps Booth and John Batterman posing in a JB Rocket cyclecar. Onlookers in background. Typed on back: "Subject: Scripps-Booth cyclecar, J.B. Rocket, 1913. Collection: MS10/James Scripps Booth Collection.Location: Detroit, Mich. Photographer: Unknown. Source: John M. Booth. Identification: As written above. JB Rocket, front view, with John Batterman in front seat, JSB at wheel." Handwritten on back: "Original 1913 J-B Rocket cyclecar, the first Scripps-Booth, weight 750 lbs., leather vee belt drive, 2 cyl vee air cooled motor. This car now all refinished in sage green with yellow wheels, new upholstery in khaki, etc. Inside of body black with mahogany trim sticks. John Batterman in front seats, brother-in-law to Ralph Booth."
- Resource ID:
- na040961
- Subject:
- Cyclecars
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954
- Scripps-Booth Cyclecar Company
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1913
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS10/James Scripps Booth Collection, Folder 11, Scripps-Booth cyclecar, 1913-1914
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.