Show MOUSER I- I OWNS OLDEST ACTIVE HAYNES HA Y ES ti Oo if if Ji n Je JIE BOUGHT WONDER WONDER CARRIAGE IN 1898 4 ree ee r F Ff r d f bl I 4 3 K 4 i p C J HOWARD x OKI PURCHASER PRESENT T a p 1 WINNING WINNING- OLD ELI CAR CAIN BUILT IN 4 VOll UC I i I l PRESIDENT NT i MAYNES l AUTO M COMPANY CO M PA NV BUILDER R OP Or OPTIE I TI E TI EOLD OLD OAF OAF- The award of the Light Twelve I I automobile offered by the H Haynes ynes Automobile Automobile Au Au- comp company ny to the owner of the oldest car In m in America goes to Ed Eel JHoward J J. Howard o of Jeffersonville Ind Howard Howard Howard How How- ard has an old gear driven Haynes which he purchased at the factory inthe inthe in inthe the summer of 1897 Since that time the car cai has been in m his possession After After Aft- Aft er ei er a a. a nineteen year nineteen year period of s service in the hills of the Ohio valley vaHey the car carIS caris caris IS is in running condition today The o old d car which was the oldest in a field of entries is to b be formally formally for for- mally many presented to Howard on October 12 at Indianapolis The exchange is to tobe to tobe be part of the Good Roads day program program pro pro- gram of the Indiana Centennial celebration cele cele- I Ibe bration Samuel M M. Ralston governor of Indiana will act as donor on the the occasion and present the car to tot I How Howard ard While the 91 old c. c car r 1 bears little r resemblance resemblance semblance sem- sem I blance Co to th the nine one cylinder cylinder Pioneer Haynes which is now on exhibition at atthe atthe the Smithsonian institute Washington I D D. C C. it i distinctly a product of the thel I first days of df the automobile industry One feature that particularly marks its I period of manufacture is the use of air operated exhaust valves alves in the thel I place of valves mechanic mechanically lly operated by the camshaft that were of later I appearance The two-cylinder two double- double opposed motoi motor is mounted directly over I Ithe the rear axle This old horseless carriage carnage Is In very good condition It has never been I repainted and there have been no nol mechanical changes or rep repairs irs of consequence con i sequence The original upholstery is I still in use although it shows consul consid considerable erable wear The second car in age belonged to I Walter E E. Smith Bound rook crook N N. J. J J. J and two other old two-cylinder two Haynes built built before 1900 were 1900 were located at I Newport R R. I I. I and Torrington Connin Conn in the possession of II i. P P. Norton and andE andE andE E G G. Perkins The tact met that these cars had chain drives and mechanically mechanical mechanical- mechanical mechanical-I ly operated valves marked them as later t types pes than the Jeffersonville car I |