The Washington times., 1925-05-27
FORD ACQUIRES
FAMOUS OLD
1893"
Car Henry r. Drove in Racing
Days Is Now in Dearborn
Museum

MUSEUM
Old 1899" world.famed Ford rae
ing car or twenty years ago, is back
again in the possession of Henry
Ford. It has been placed in Mr..
Ford's museum at Dearborn and
there will be preserved to postertty
as q relic Of the early days OF the
automobile industry.
The car arrived at Dearborn q
few days ago from the East where
lit had been on display having been
sent there by San Francisco Ford
dealer who owned It for several
years.
Return OF 1899" recalls the time
a score Of years ago when Henry
Ford himself was race driver.
Ford won race after race IN all
pats OF the country and there are
many today who will recall the
famous contest staged on October
10, 1901, when the world champion.
ship automobile races were held at
the Crosse Pointe Blue Ribbon
track, Detroit, and in which Ford
defeated Alexander Wintom In .
ten.mile race, finishing three-quar
ters of u mile ahead. The time Tor
the ten miles was Is minutes 20 40
seconds.
On Ice Track.
For wears 1899" held all records
for circular dirt tracks and 1t was
| Ford who first broke the niIe-ar
minute record, driving old sSS''
back in 1904 on an ice track at
Baltimore Bay, Michigan, covering
the mile in SO As seconds.
When Ford withdrew from the
racing game TO devote his atten.
tons to the manufacturing end O
IT'S great and growing business ne
lntrusted his race entries to such
drivers as Barney Oldfield, who
drove 1899" in many a race and
who christened II "Old Faithful"
Eand to Frank Kulick who wrote
1.-The name Of Ford indelibly on the
pages of automobile racing history
In America.
How wen Ford racing cars Der-
formed on the speedways is PROD
ably best told by the array OF silver
Icups that is on display in. the execuf
ltive's dining room at the Highland
Park plant Of the Ford Motor COM
lpany.
There are large cups and small
lcups: cups that bear to the last
lGDlnY IGLLGI L1A0 bSOAJ - 6OA~AO
Gus victory wrested from a field OF
keen rivals; others, borne away IN
1.-The flush of conquest with scarcely
!a word to identify them or to recail
the race In which they were won
But back of every one Is q story
Of struggle-stories that DrlnS
visions of cheering crowds, long
stretches of perilons road or track.
Irushing cars, pick Of American anc
| European makes laundering along
lin a swirl of dust at a speed tnen
i considered marvellous. What Is
even more and what still serves az
ian inspiration is that every cup az
tests to the prowess, the staniha
sirca has become the most univer-
raIlv used and widest known in the
world
Took Double. Prizes.
One handsome trophy in the Ford
Icollection bears the inscription. Inc
ICSrand Duchess First Prize. II was
won by a twenty horsepower Foro
at Poughkeepsie and over the same
sIistance. q. Ford flashed to victory
lin the free for-all event.
| A week before the PoughkepsiO
races a Ford racer in a Rhode Is
land event won the first prize In
Ifive.mile contest for cars between
SS1 and ,432 pounds. and also land
ed first honcrs in another flve-mhO
race.
The inscription on another fine
cup shows it was won on October
LIS, 1901, on the Denver speedway
over distance Of thirty miles,
while yet another tells the story OF
a Ford triumph in the five-mile In.
- NJ Nh
vember 8, 1904. The time. min
utes, 1925 seconds. established q
track record. Two more cups pro-
claim Ford victories at Harlem,
N. Y, in the fall of 1904, one each
for the five and ten-mile events.
Another shows that a Ford was
the fastest car in the Mt. Morrison
hill climb, near Denver, on July
10, 1910. Although the course was
only 1H miles In length, the cars
had to ascend 1000 feet, and the
Ford was clocked in minutes,
16 As seconds. The same day Ford
cars finished first and second in
another race up Mt. Morrison, the
winning Ford making the distance
| in minutes, II 3-5 seconds.
In the collection there is also n
priced group Of cups captured in
| the famous Algonquin Hill climbing
contests.
Three FOrds Won.
Two Of these were won by Ford
cars in 1910. Among the trophies
| offered at Alginquin the next year
was a cup for stock cars selling Up
to $500, and in this event the first
| three places were captured by
Fords. In another event at that
time, Kulick established q new rec
ord for Phillips Hill. In winning
that event the Ford made the half.
mile climb in % 1-5 seconds.
And then came the memorable
l