Electric Avenue, 1905

We’ve mentioned time and again how excellent Shorpy is for old car spotting, and one of the recent photos that blog posted proves that. The above image is a detail from a much larger photograph of Broadway in 1905 and shows two interesting vehicles: the sightseeing bus on the left and the cab on the […]

Henry Ford and the electric car

photo from the collections of The Henry Ford
That Henry Ford and Thomas Edison became good friends later in their lives is well known. They camped together, they presented each other with lavish gifts, they owned houses immediately adjacent to each other. Many Ford enthusiasts also know that, at the time Ford first drove his Quadricycle […]