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_Inventor_, Chas E Duryea by Chaprictlo Attys=

[Illustration: FIGURE 28--A DRAWING AND THE FIRST PAGE of the specifications of the first patent issued to C E Duryea It can be readily seen that this draas not made after the plan of the first vehicle]

As the work moved nearer completion Frank realized that the final tests would have to be conducted on roadssnows He had considerable doubt whether the narrow iron tires would have enough traction to move the phaeton Soon he devised an expedient for this situation, co Jack Swaine [a local blackset over this snow and ice Our detachable riether at one point by two screws, one on either side of felloe It will be studded with calks in ts”[34]

[Illustration: FIGURE 29--MR AND MRS FRANK DURYEA exa vehicle in the Smithsonian Institution before restoration]

January 18, 1894, was a day of triu Charles about his success the next day he said, ”Took out carriage again last night and gave it another test about 9 o'clock” The only difficulty he ine, caused by the tiny leather pad in the exhaust-valveof this trip, Frank recalled in 1956:

When I got this car ready to run one night, I took it out and I had a young felloith ht need him to help push in case the car didn't work We ran from the area of the shop where it was built down on Taylor Street We started out and ran up Worthington Street hill,[36] on top of what youover level roads from there to the home of Mr Markham who lived with his son-in-law, Will Bemis, and there we refilled this tank ater [At this point he was asked if it was pretty well emptied by then] Yes, I said in ot up there the water was boiling furiously Well, no doubt it was We refilled it and then we turned it back and drove down along the Central Street hill and along Maple, crossed into State Street, dropped down to Dwight, est along Dwight to the vicinity where we had a shed that we could put the car in for the night During that trip we had run, I think, just about six miles, maybe a little bit more That was the first trip with this vehicle It was the first trip of anything more than a few hundred yards that the car had ever made

= DURYEA AUTOMOBILE BUILT BY J F AND C E DURYEA 1893 US NATIONAL MUSEUM CAT 307,199 SMITHSONIAN INStitUTION SEPT 1960 A A BALUNEK=

Now Frank could give dee more investors to back future work Cautious Mr Markhah Frank had to assure hiine of the brakeless vehicle would hold thee on which he had spent so e is probably less than a hundred miles Little additional work is known to have been perfore after January 1894; there is, however, a letter[37] Frank sent his brother on January 19 which tells of contee was dispatched to Charles on March 22, ood performance of the phaeton on Harrison Avenue hill[38] This was possibly the last run of the machine, for no further references have been discovered

Frank spent the s, some of which accompanied their first patent application,[39] while others were to be used in the construction of an ie

Work on the new machine started in April The old phaeton, in the absence of used-car lots, was put into storage in the Bemis barn[40]

Later, on the foron Company in 1895, it was removed to the barn of D A Reed, treasurer of the company[41]

There it relis M Uppercu and presented to the US National Museum

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For sale by the Superintendent of Docuton, DC 20402--Price 30 cents

Footnotes:

[1] S H OLIVER, _Automobiles and Motorcycles in the US National Museuton: Smithsonian Institution, 1957), p 24

[2] G R DOYLE, _The World's Automobiles_ (London: Temple Press Limited, 1959), p 67

[3] Recorded intervieith Frank Duryea in the US National Museum, Novefield Daily Republican_, April 14, 1937

[5] FRANK DURYEA, _Afield, Mass: Donald Macaulay, 1942), p 4

[6] Letter from Charles Duryea to Alfred Reeves, March 25, 1920; copy in Museum files

[7] History notes dictated by Charles E Duryea in the office of David Beecroft, editor of _Automobile Trade Journal_, on January 10, 1925

Copy in Museum files Hereinafter, these notes are referred to as ”history”

[8] Frank Duryea in statement made to the Senate Committee on Public Administration of Massachusetts, February 9, 1952