Official measuring Buick truck, 1911 Chicago Reliability Run

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Official measuring Buick truck, 1911 Chicago Reliability Run
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
Resource ID:
na020242
Creator:
Spooner & Wells
Subject:
Trucks--Middle West
Buick Motor Company
Motor vehicle driving--Competitions--Middle West
Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
Photographic prints
Date Issued:
1911
Format:
1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Member of:
National Automotive History Collection
Lazarnick Collection
Filing Location:
Tours--Chicago Reliability Run, 1911 #1
Negative Number:
Negative #C17,819
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.