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Title
First Steam Car built by R. E. Olds, Lansing
Creator
James P. Edmonds

Institution
Capital Area District Library

Subject
Automobiles

Subject
Automobiles, Steam

Subject
NULL

Item Number
JQ01w002

Relation
NULL

Type
image

Format
tiff

Description
Photograph of first steam car built by R. E. Olds, Lansing, 1886. In 1893, it was sold to an English firm and shipped to their branch house in Bombay, India. It was the first sale of a self-propelled road vehicle ever made in Michigan.

First Steam Car built by R. E. Olds, Lansing

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