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 […]

Proven practices

As promised, David Greenlees sent us more photos to go along with last week’s pics documenting the installation of steam and turbine engines in experimental GM cars. This week, the focus of the photos is on the GM Proving Grounds and the devices they used to test cars. For example, the above photo depicts a […]

Snow, mud, mountains: So you wanna live in Vermont?

Permit me, if you will, another indulgence in the vintage photography presented at the University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program. We only scratched the surface of the program’s photo collection when we recently looked at the streets of Bennington and Miller Chevrolet-Cadillac’s old dealership. The archive has more than 35,000 photos, and unsurprisingly, most of […]