Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-05
OLDEST MAKER IN AMERICA
MAKES UNIQUE OFFER TO
OWNER OF HAYNES CAR

Who has the Oldest automobile in
America? The Haynes Automobile
Company, the builders of the first
automobile to he built in the country,
want to find the Oldest Haynes car.
They are going to trade one of their
newest models, a twelve-cylinder car,
Tor the Haynes automobile of the
earliest type which car be found
While discussing this novel trade
deal B. F. Barker, manager of the
Miller Auto Company, IS South Cam
eron street, local distributors for the
Haynes, said:
wv are going to make an even trade.
To the owner of the earliest Haynes
car we will give one of the new Light
Twelves in exchange for his relic. 1t
is a well-known fact that there are a
number of the older models still doing
service. One veteran, built in the
times when the modes, called for sur
reys and phaetons, is still pulling it's
loads over the rutted highways on the
Dakota plains.
The chances are the offer will un-
SONOl types VI I1dyneS CARS IndJ were
popular in the early days. The auto
mobiles built in the late nineties and
the first years of the following decade
had two-cylinder motors, machines
with large bore cylinders and short
piston stroke. In 1905 the builders of
Americas First Car put four-cylin-
der motor car on the market, which
was followed by the first of the six
cylinder type seven years later.
1t is DOSaibla that one of the oldest
cars of the one-cylinder type may arise
PhoeniX-like from the ashes and scrap
heaps of the motor car industry and
lay claim to the Haynes Light Twelve
The Haynes company built cars of this
model, prototypes of Americas First
Car during the first four years of its
existence, and the Homecoming Of one
of these automobile pioneers would be
an occasion for festivity.
THE tale of the first Haynes car
and the forerunner of all that is to-day
in the motor car world is part of the
warp and woof of American industrial
history The antiquated vehicle has
been presented to the Smithsonian In
stitution, at Washington, D. c., by Ell
wood Haynes, where 1t adds another
wreath of tribute to American in
ventive genius and where 1T may be
seen by visitors at any time.
This was the car that Elwood
Haynes put together in blacksmith
shop to substitute for an old gray
horse whose endurance could not
match the needs of his owner in going
over the roads connecting a circuit of
gas wells in Central Indiana. Mr..
Haynes drove his first American auto
mobile. which attained a speed of nine
miles an hour, in and about Kokomo
for ten years or more. Many residents
remember seeing the inventor, who
revolutionized travel by land as much
as did Robert Fulton by water, stop
along the roadside to tinker with the
engine, and we'll do they remember
the precautions he had to exercise to
placate belligerent teamsters.
"Whatever model the offer to trade
returns, it will make a striking demon
stration Of the motor car progress that
has transpired at the Haynes factory.
The new twelve-cylinder motor, cast
en- bloc in two sets of six each, weighs
only a trifle more than the older two
and four cylinder engines. The pis-
tons of the Light Twelve motor. are
made from an aluminium alloy with a
cop senuent decrease of weight. ADV,