1893 Duryea Motor Wagon Motor Wagon

Brothers Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea of Chicopee Falls, MA is credited with building America's first gasoline-powered automobile in 1893. By 1895, Charles had received the first United States Patent for an auto. Frank won the nation's very first car race - the Chicago-Times Herald race - and the pair organized America's first auto manufacturer. In 1896, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company of Springfield, MA constructed 13 identical automobiles, making them the first American company to move from making a single car for sale to 'mass production' and thus most historians consider it the birth of the American automobile industry. Within two years the brothers dissolved their company and went their separate ways.

This is a replica of the original 1893 Duryea, which is owned by the Smithsonian Institute and is one of 100 built in 1993 to mark the 100th anniversary of the American auto industry.

Source - Gilmore Museum