Motorists with Flanders automobile near Memphis, Tennessee, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition
Description:
View of W.O. Westgard, E. LeRoy Pelletier, Charles Ross and F. Ed. Spooner standing next to Flanders electric car on rural dirt road near Memphis, Tennessee, during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour. The pathfinding tour covered a route from Detroit, Michigan to New Orleans, Louisiana, but the 1912 Glidden Tour was canceled. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "Messrs. Pelletier, Spooner, Ross and Westgard hold a roadside consultation near Memphis, Tenn., 1912."
