I spent the yesterday afternoon at the Northeast Classic Car Museum in Norwich, NY. They have a great collection of some very rare cars, including cars made right here in NY. The auto industry in the first three decades of the 20th century was much more diverse than it became in the wake of the Great Depression. The museum has one of the, if not the largest collections of Franklin automobiles manufactured by the Franklin Automobile Company of Syracuse, NY. Franklin manufactured and sold luxury cars from 1902 to 1934 and introduced a number of innovations.
A 1903 Franklin. This is the 2nd oldest known Franklin in existence. The first Franklin of 1902 is owned by the Smithsonian...
Innovations include the first 4-cylinder engine and elliptic suspension.
More after the squiggle.
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