Show I i Ji l f 1 J t f 11 l I Auto Made Mad Rec Reco Record rd a I II I 7 1 Miles lies Per r Hour 23 Years Ye rs Ago Just twenty three years ago Elwood Elwood El- El wood Haynes 8 started ar cd the tho a actual tuai construction construction con con- horse ess tho machine that gave birth to tho the American n autom lO industry f says Bays A A. A. 1 F. F Sa Savage g of ot the H Haynes Moto Motor Mo Mo- to tor Car company The first public appearance of or tho the pioneer car was wason on on Jul July 4 when it ran ran for tor ab about ut three mlle miles on the tho ho country roads roads' near Kokomo Ind ata at ata a 0 speed of between six and seven miles per por hour Haynes HynOS car was aH equipped with a one der motor But tho the one car was built during the tho first season Tho TIme plo plo- neer car is now In tn the Smithsonian institution Washington D D. C C. as a national exhibit fin lIn 1895 a two two-cyl two cylinder Haynes was entered In the Chicago Times Herald contest and won won the first prize of at to for having the best balanced motor Fifty cars were built in 1898 in spite of or the warnings of ot advisers that the horseless homeless carriage was only a plaything for the rich Tho The market did not appear appear to to be oversupplied bythe bytho by bytho tho the end of or the year year- and nd a great greater r production was as planned for tor the following fol lowing season |