1901 Winton

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Can anyone give me any information about this car?

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Here are a few tid bits on the Winton in general from the net along with their source URL:<P><BR> <A HREF="http://yourpage.blazenet.com/keimpjad/pageUZ.html/" TARGET=_blank>http://yourpage.blazenet.com/keimpjad/pageUZ.html/</A> <P>Manufacturer- Winton Motor Carriage Co. <BR> Location- Cleveland, Ohio <P> History<BR> The first Wintons featured a laminated wood frame and were sold in 1898. Only 25 were sold, but some of the buyers included the Packard brothers. Wintons were highly competitive in racing, and were very successful over the years. In 1906, Wintons adopted the sliding-style transmission. Electric starting came in 1915, along with pair-cast sixes. <P> The last major changes Winton ever made was in 1920, when they abandoned all other models to make the Series 25. Car production ceased in 1924, and Winton turned their attention to marine engines. <P> <A HREF="http://www.wintonhistory.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.wintonhistory.com/</A> <P>Cleveland, OH - When's the last time you used your brakes and<BR> you thought of Alexander Winton?<P> "Alexander who?" is most likely your response. Which is precisely<BR> why two automotive buffs sat down to document the<BR> accomplishments of a little-known automotive pioneer.<P> "Famous But Forgotten: The Story of Alexander Winton" by Clevelanders Thomas F. Saal and Bernard J. Golias details Winton's fascination with motion and power, from his beginnings as a bicycle manufacturer on Cleveland's West Side to his design and development of high-end automobiles. "People tend to equate Henry Ford with all the major automotive accomplishments," Golias says. "But if you take a look at the early patents, Winton held the groundbreakers in automotiven development."<P>Winton's legacy includes more than 100 patents instrumental in the early designs of automobiles and diesel engines. He was also generous in passing the technology along to competitors when safety was an issue.<P> The book indicates that prior to the Gross Pointe Race in 1901,Winton gave Henry Ford one of his new complete steering mechanisms with a steering wheel assembly because Winton said somebody would get killed with the device Ford was using. Ford went on the win the Gross Pointe Race, but Winton consoled himself that it was with his steering gear.<BR> <P><BR><A HREF="http://cua6.csuohio.edu/nhlink/educatio/teaching/ms/ms33a.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://cua6.csuohio.edu/nhlink/educatio/teaching/ms/ms33a.htm</A> <P>Alexander Winton, a maker of bicycles, gave Clevelanders something to think about in 1896<BR>when he sputtered up and down the city's streets in the first gasoline-powered automobile. By building an engine into a four-wheel vehicle, he started an industry that was soon to help make Cleveland the center of Automobile manufacturing in the United States. This title was held until about 1904, when Cleveland lost its distinction to Detroit.<P>The Winton Motor Car Company quickly became an important part of Cleveland's industry and led the way for other companies in the city to enter the automotive field, such as White Motors. During the industry's strongest years, some 80 different makes of automobiles were produced by Cleveland factories, including the Winton, the Jordan, the Cleveland, the Baker Electric, the Hupmobile and the Peerless. The cars manufactured by Winton were expensive and classically styled. They were purchased by the upper-middle-class and were associated with social status. <P>In 1899, a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter was interviewing Winton and questioned him about the reliability of his cars. Winton responded that his automobile could take the two of them to New York in less than fifty hours running time. The reporter sealed the challenge with a pledge to buy Winton dinner if he succeeded and The Plain Dealer editors readily agreed to sponsor the trip. With fanfare and ceremony, the duo left Cleveland City Hall on May 22, 1899, carrying a letter from Cleveland Mayor John Farley to New York Mayor, Robert Van Wyck. The total distance covered was 707.4 miles, and the actual running time was forty-seven hours and thirty-four minutes, with an average speed of 14.87 miles an hour. The Cleveland pair arrived in New York with one million New York citizens to greet them. The New York Mayor remarked, "This trip of The Plain Dealer has opened the eyes of America to the possibilities of the automobile as a practical carriage for road work. It will have much to do with the rapid advancement of motor carriages in this country." The reporter recounted his new accounts of the journey, frequently using the term "automobile", helping to establish a name for this new mode of transportation.<P>On February 11, 1924, the Winton Company stopped producing automobiles after a failure to adapt to the public's increasing desire for a medium-priced car. However, the Winton name lives on with Winton Avenue in Lakewood, and the hi-rise residential building, Winton Place, which stands on the site of "Roseneath," Alexander Winton's Lakewood home. <P><BR>Hope they help some. <P>Don't know if its true but one article I read stated that after James Packard bought a Winton Motor Carriage in the 1890s, he was so dissatisfied with it that he and his brother William started building their own automobiles under the name "Packard"<p>[ 09-24-2001: Message edited by: BruceW ]