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American Electric Vehicle Company
In collection
From the Smithsonian Collection
This 1896 advertisement for an electric motor carriage shows the ways that carriage forms carried over into the automobile era. |
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advertisement
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Credit: | Smithsonian Institution |
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The first auto manufacturers were bicycle and carriage makers, metalworkers, and machinists. In the 1900s and 1910s, hundreds of new companies created cars of varying price and quality in limited numbers.
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