Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917 / With an analysis of the standing and prospects of the automobile industry

by H. L. Barber

GENERAL INDEX

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• Abbott Corporation, [96]-[221]
• Accessories; importance in the automobile industry, [120]
• Advertising; influence in popularizing automobiles, [83], [84], [85], [86], [87], [88], [91], [97]
• Aid by dealers in promoting automobile industry, [143], [144]
• Ajax Rubber Tire Co., [178], [179], [182], [188], [190]
• Alliance Rubber Tire Co., [182], [188]
• Allison, Robert, purchaser of first American gasoline car, [76]
• Allen Motor Car Co., [96], [221]
• Aluminum, extent of use in automobiles, [44]
• American Automobile Association, [35], [133], [135]
• American Motors Corporation, [95], [182], [188], [221]
• America’s part in inventing fundamentals of the automobile, [77]
• America’s part in the first commercialization of the automobile, [78]
• Apperson Brothers, [115], [194], [221]
• Appreciation in value of automobile stocks, [201], [202]
• Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, [37], [38], [39], [109], [112], [135]
• Attitude of people toward the automobile in 1893-8, [75]
• Auburn Automobile Co., [95], [221]
• Auto Body Co., [193]
• Automobile, accessories and tire securities traded in on New York Curb 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1916, [187]-[191]
• Automobile market for 1917, estimated, [215], [216], [217], [218]
• Automobiles, commercial—names, capacity, maker, price, [231]-[242]
• Automobile securities traded in on New York Stock Exchange, 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1916, [178-183]
• Automobiles, passenger—names, cylinders, maker, price, [221]- [229]
• Average price all motor vehicles, 1916, [100], [139], [174], [175]
• Average price of automobile and tire stocks traded in on New York Stock Exchange 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1916, [185]
• Average price of automobile tire and accessories stocks traded in on New York Curb 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1916, [192]
• Benefits of the automobile in affording first hand knowledge—social and economic value, [155-166]
• Ben-Hur Motor Co., [96], [221]
• Benz, builder of first internal combustion road vehicle, [69], [74], [77]
• Blanchard, Thomas, early American auto builder, [62]
• Bollee, Frenchman who attained highest efficiency in early automobile construction, [64], [65], [67]
• Bouton, French maker of gasoline cars, [72], [78]
• Brady, A. F., early automobile capitalist, [108]
• Brush Automobile Co., [201]
• Buick Motor Co., [95], [221]
• Cadillac Motor Co., [93], [95], [115], [222]
• Capital invested in automobiles, [141]
• Case, J. I., T. M. Co., [95], [222]
• Chalmers Motor Car Co., [96], [115], [118], [181], [187], [193], [196], [222]
• Chandler Motor Co., [96], [178], [179], [182], [188], [190], [222]
• Character of American people largely responsible for automobile’s commercial success, [89], [90]
• Chevrolet Motor Co., [96], [181], [187], [193], [205], [222]
• Chromium—value in automobile construction, [129]
• Cole Motor Car Co., [96], [222]
• Columbia Motor Co., [201], [222]
• Columbia Automobile Co. of New Jersey, [108]
• Companies whose securities are not generally traded in, [184], [185]
• Consolidated Car Co., [194]
• Continental Motors, [193]
• Consolidated Rubber Tire Co., [182], [188]
• Co-operation in automobile industry, [125], [126], [127], [128], [129], [130], [132], [133], [134], [135], [136], [137]
• Crow-Elkhart Motor Car Co., [96], [221]
• Cugnot, Nicholas Joseph, inventor of first automobile, [50], [51], [52], [53], [54], [57], [77], [78]
• Cunningham, Jas. Son & Co., [96], [222]
• Daimler, Gottlieb, inventor of hot tube ignition, [69], [70], [77]
• Decrease in average price of automobiles, [28], [100], [175]
• De Dion, French maker of gasoline cars, [72], [78]
• Depreciation in automobile stocks, [201], [202]
• Detroit Automobile Co., [93]
• Difficulty in getting capital, [142]
• Distribution of leading motor cars by states, [213]
• Doble, builder of steam cars, [118], [223]
• Dodge Brothers, [96], [194], [223]
• Dorris Motor Car Co., [95], [223]
• Dort Motor Car Co., [96], [223]
• Drexel Motor Car Corporation, [96], [223]
• Duryea, Charles E., builder of first gasoline automobile in America that ran (frontispiece), [72], [74], [76], [92], [93]
• Economy of factory operation, [43], [130], [131], [132]
• Edmunds & Jones Corporation, [197]
• Electric automobiles; when first sold in commercial quantities in the United States, [78]
• Electric Vehicle Co., [182], [188]
• Electric Vehicle Co. of New Jersey, [69], [114]
• Elgin Motor Car Co., [96], [223]
• Emerson Motors Co., [181], [187], [201], [223]
• Enger Motor Car Co., [182], [188], [223]
• Enthusiasm part in industry’s success, [92]
• Essex Motor Co., [183], [189]
• Evans, Oliver, first known American experimenter with steam automobile, [57], [58], [59], [60], [72]
• Falls Motor Co., [181], [187]
• Federal Motor Truck Co., [194], [234]
• Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., [193], [199]
• First automobile ever made, [50], [51], [52], [53]
• First auto race in America, [73]
• First auto race in the world, [73]
• First automobile run on a road with any success, [56]
• First chaise propelled by other than horse power, [50]
• First electric automobile built and first sold in the United States, [71], [118]
• First automobile built in America that ran; first sold in the United States, [72], [73], [74], [75], [76], [118]
• First modern steam car built in the United States; first sold in the United States, [70], [118]
• First use of internal combustion to drive piston in cylinder, [50]
• Fisher Body Corporation, [183], [189], [197], [198]
• Fisk Tire Co., [183], [189], [200]
• Ford, Henry (frontispiece), [37], [38], [39], [74], [76], [81], [83], [92], [93], [94], [98], [101], [102], [110], [111], [112], [113], [114], [115]
• Ford Motor Co., [94], [95], [194], [224]
• Ford Motor Company of Canada, [193], [195], [224]
• Ford Tractor Co., [201]
• Franklin, Benjamin Frontispiece,
• Franklin, H. H. Mfg. Co., [95], [115], [195], [224]
• Frederick, J. George, quotation, [148], [149]
• Future of automobile accessories, [216], [217]
• Future of automotive inventions in rural districts, [124], [125]
• Future of commercial automobiles, [116], [117]
• Future of electric automobile industry, [116]
• Future of automobile industry as an investment, [145], [146], [147], [149], [150], [151], [152], [153], [154], [216], [217]
• Future of the tire industry and stocks, [217]
• Future trend of automobile securities, [206], [207], [209]
• General Motors Co., [29], [178], [179], [182], [183], [188], [189], [190], [193], [196], [197], [234]
• Glide automobile, [95], [224]
• Goodrich, B. F. Co., [178], [179], [182], [188], [190], [193]
• Good roads; aid to automobile increase, [46], [47], [133], [166]
• Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., [193]
• Gramm Motor Truck Co., [195], [234]
• Grant Motor Car Corporation, [181], [187], [224]
• Growth, record for rapidity held by automobile industry, [173]
• Gurney, Goldsworthy, early English automobile builder, [63], [77]
• Hancock, Walter, early English automobile builder, [63], [77]
• Harroun Motors Corporation 96, [201], [224]
• Haynes Automobile Co., [195], [224]
• Haynes, Elwood, builder of third successful gasoline car made in America, [74], [76], [77], [92], [93], [94], [115]
• High and low prices during 1916 of representative mining, steel, industrial and railroad groups of securities compared with similar groups in automobile field, [204]
• Horses, what each consumes and number in United States, [168]
• Hudson Motor Car Co., [96], [225]
• Hupp Motor Car Corporation 96, [225], [181], [187]
• Imperial Carbon Chaser Co., [181], [187]
• Increase in production of motor trucks, [100], [139], [140]
• Increase of population in United States in 16 years, [91]
• Increase of wealth in United States in 12 years, [91]
• Intercon. Rubber Co., [183], [189]
• Inter. Motors Co., [189]
• Interstate Motor Co., [96], [225]
• James, W. H., English inventor and auto builder, [61], [62], [77]
• Kelly Springfield Tire Co., [178], [179], [183], [189], [190], [202], [205]
• Kelsey Wheel, [183], [189]
• Keystone Tire & Rubber Co., [181], [187]
• Kissel Motor Car Co., [96], [195]
• Knight, inventor of motor, [77], [229]
• Lee Tire & Rubber Co., [178], [179], [183], [189], [190], [205]
• Leland, of the Cadillac Co., [115]
• Levassor, who solved problem of road shock, [72], [77]
• Lexington motor car, [96], [225]
• Locomobile Company of America, [95], [225]
• Madison Motors Co., [96], [226]
• Machining, part played by, [43], [44], [130]
• Maibohm Motors Co., [96], [226]
• Marmon automobile, [95], [226]
• Maxwell-Briscoe, [201]
• Maxwell Motor Co., [96], [178], [179], [190], [193], [201], [226]
• McDonald, J. B., purchaser first electric automobile built, [71]
• Mechanical imperfections of early automobiles, [61]
• Metropolitan Motors Co., [183], [189]
• Mitchell Motors Co., [95], [181], [187], [195], [226]
• Moline-Knight, [95], [226]
• Monarch Motor Car Co., [96], [226]
• Money-earning possibilities of automobile investments now the greatest, [174]
• Moon Motor Car Co., [96], [226], [237]
• Morrison, William, builder first electric automobile, [71]
• Motor Products Co., [183], [189], [197], [198]
• Murdock, William, builder of model of second automobile, [54], [55], [56]
• Mutual Motors Co., [195]
• National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, [28], [29], [30], [38], [135]
• National Auto Corporation, [181], [187]
• National Motor Car & Vehicle Corporation, [196], [227]
• Newer entrants into securities market, [200], [201]
• Non-Skid chain, [122]
• Non-Skid tread, [123]
• Number of automobile manufacturers who failed, [30], [97], [106]
• Number of automobiles produced in 1903, [30]
• Number of automobiles produced in 1907, [33]
• Number of automobiles produced in 1908, [34]
• Number of automobiles produced in 1909-10-11-12-13-14-15-16, [30], [34], [100], [139], [150]
• Number of commercial vehicles produced in 1915, [146]
• Number of commercial vehicles produced in 1916, [28], [140], [147]
• Number of farms in United States, [146]
• Number of miles of roads improved and unimproved in United States, [168]
• Number of passenger automobiles produced in 1916, [28]
• Number of people in United States with incomes over $1,800, [41]
• Number of people in United States with incomes over $1,200, [41]
• Number of “rich” people in the United States, [145]
• Oakland Motor Car Co., [96], [227]
• Ohio Electric Car Co., [96], [227]
• Olds, successful American auto builder, [81], [95], [115], [227]
• Opposition, early, to automobile “craze”, [104], [105]
• Otto, inventor of gas engine, [69], [113]
• Output of automobile makers, how planned, [41]
• Packard Motor Car Co., [95], [193], [227], [238]
• Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co., [96], [193], [227]
• Panhard, French maker of gasoline cars, [72], [78]
• Pecqueur, discoverer of principle of “differential”, [62], [63], [77]
• Peerless Motor Car Co., [95], [181], [187], [227]
• Percentage gain automobile production 1915 over 1914, [28]
• Percentage gain automobile production 1916 over 1915, [28]
• Per cent of value added by manufacture to automobiles, [82]
• Period of automobile industry’s greatest development in the United States, [76]
• Perlman Rim Corporation, [183], [189], [197], [198]
• Peugeot, French maker of gasoline cars, [72], [78]
• Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co., [95], [181], [187], [195], [197], [227]
• Pope Manufacturing Co., [108], [182], [188]
• Portage Rubber Co., [193]
• Premier Motor Corporation, [95], [228]
• Present trend of automobile, accessories and tire securities, [205], [206], [228]
• Princess Motor Car Corporation, [183], [189], [228]
• Prospects when war ends for automobile industry, [47], [48]
• Pullman Motor Car Co., [95], [228]
• Quantity production of automobiles, [41], [43], [92], [98], [101]
• Rate of growth of automobile production and registration compared with population, [208]
• Ratio of voting men to each registered automobile in United States, [210], [211]
• “Rauch & Lang” automobile, [95], [228]
• Regal Motor Car Co., [96], [228]
• Registration of automobiles; increase since 1906, [174]
• Reliability contests; value of, [34], [35], [36]
• Reo Motor Car Co., [96], [193], [228], [239]
• Republic Motor Truck Co., [181], [187], [189], [195], [239]
• Republic Rubber Co., [193]
• Retail sales of motor vehicles in 1916, [28]
• Riker, builder of steam cars, [78], [115], [118], [239]
• Rims, demountable, [123]
• Roper, S. H., builder of first modern steam car in United States, [70]
• Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., [178], [180], [190]
• Ryan, Thomas F., early automobile capitalist, [108]
• Sampson, [201]
• Saturation, point of, not imminent, [31], [145], [146], [151], [176], [209], [214]
• Saxon Motors Co., [96], [178], [180], [183], [189], [190], [228]
• Scripps-Booth Corporation, [96], [181], [187], [228]
• Securities, leading examples of prices, terms and promotion plans on which they were put out, [195]-[200]
• Securities, trading in, Cleveland Stock Exchange, [193]
• Securities, trading in, Detroit Stock Exchange, [193]
• Selden, Geo. B., first patentor of gasoline motor, [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [77], [104], [114]
• Selden “patent”, [37], [104], [107], [108], [109], [110], [111], [112], [113], [114]
• Self-starter, the, [44], [45], [122]
• Serpollet, made use of dry steam possible, [73], [77]
• Sliding transmission, [123]
• Society of Automotive Engineers, [44], [135]
• Smith Motor Truck Co., [181], [187]
• Spark plug, chambered, [123]
• Springfield Body Co., [181], [187]
• Standardization of manufacture of automobiles, [82], [97], [99], [100], [135], [136]
• Standard Motor Co., [181], [187], [239]
• Stanley, builder of steam cars, [78], [118], [119], [228], [240]
• Stearns, B. F. Co., [95], [115], [195], [229]
• Stocks of automobile companies; when they became known in the legitimate market, [173]
• Stoddard-Dayton, [201]
• Stromberg Carburetor Co., [181], [187]
• Studebaker Corporation, [95], [178], [180], [182], [188], [190], [193], [202], [205], [229], [240]
• Stutz Motor Car Co., [96], [178], [180], [183], [189], [190], [229]
• Supremacy of United States in automobile industry, [79], [80], [81], [82], [102]
• Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co., [193]
• Thomas, E. R., Motor Car Co., [95], [115], [229], [240]
• Time payment plan in buying automobiles, [40], [41]
• Time required to develop automobile, [49]
• Times Square Auto Supply Co., [183], [189]
• Tires, rubber; history of, [74], [120], [121], [122], [140]
• Tires, solid, [123]
• Tractors, economical value and future, [147], [148], [149]
• Transue & Williams Steel Forging Co., [197], [199]
• Trevithick, Richard, early English automobile maker, [56], [57], [58], [77]
• Tungsten, value in automobile construction, [129]
• United Alloy Steel Corporation, [197], [198], [199]
• United Motors Co., [182], [187], [205], [240]
• United States Motors Co., [182], [188], [201], [240]
• United States Rubber Co., [178], [180], [190], [200]
• Universal Motor Co., [183], [189]
• Value of automobiles produced 1899 to 1916, [139]
• Value of automobiles produced 1907 to 1909, [34]
• Value of motor trucks produced in 1916, [28]
• Value of passenger cars produced in 1916, [28]
• Vanadium; value in automobile construction, [129]
• Velie Motors Corporation, [96], [229]
• War orders for automobile trucks, 1913-14, [47]
• War orders for automobile trucks, 1914-15, [47]
• War use of trucks; value in warfare, [169]-[170]
• Watt, James, inventor of steam engine, [51]
• When early automobile had a “vogue” in England, [63]
• When French began selling automobiles in quantity, [78]
• White, inventor of generator for steam cars, [77], [78], [95], [118], [119]
• White Motor Co., [95], [178], [180], [183], [189], [190], [193], [229], [241]
• Whitney, William O., early automobile capitalist, [108]
• Why early English automobiles failed, [64]
• Why gasoline cars are preferred, [118]
• Widener, P. A. B., early automobile capitalist, [108]
• Willys-Overland Co., [42], [43], [81], [95], [115], [178], [180], [182], [188], [190], [196], [227], [229]
• Winton, Alexander, sold first American gasoline car, [76], [78], [93], [94], [95], [115]
• Winton Co., [195], [229]
• Women as auto owners and drivers, [45], [46], [123]
• Year automobile industry entered “billion dollar class”, [27]
• Year of start of automobile business as a “real” industry, [33]

Transcriber’s Notes:

The spelling, hyphenation, punctuation and accentuation are as the original, except for apparent typographical errors which have been corrected.

The wide table of Curb Market trading for years 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1916 has been split into two, vertically, the first displays the years 1916 and 1912, the second half displays years 1909 and 1906 for each of the three folio pages.