1904 Knox Two-Cylinder Tuxedo Touring

Harry A. Knox was encouraged to build an automobile by his next-door neighbor, J. Frank Duryea. He founded the Knox Automobile Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, and in the first year, 15 three-wheeled runabouts were produced. By 1910 the company was producing luxury models with a limousine that sold for as much as $6,400.00. Financial difficulties loomed, and the assets were sold late in 1914. The company reorganized and continued in the production of tractor-trailers and fire apparatus units, until it, too, was gone by the early Twenties.

Built for Knox Co.'s President, Elijah H. Cutler, this vehicle was shown at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. It is powered by a 16/18hp 275cid 2-cylinder engine and has an 84-inch wheelbase. In later years, this car was owned by Waleta Clark, the wife of Henry AUstin Clark Jr., and exhibited at his Carnival of Cars Auto Museum, Times Square, N.Y., and at the Long Island Auto Museum, Southhampton, New York. It has been featured on several different postcards, on a print, and in the 1957 film '50 Years of Automotive Progress' produced by Scudder Boyd.

'Old Porcupine' was the car's affectionate name due to the two-inch pins stuck into the cylinder barrel. Having an air-cooled engine, the Knox was known as 'the Car that Never Drinks.'