Mystery Friday Foto #44 : Joe Tracy test driving the 1905 Locomobile racer at the Bridgeport factory
The Helck Family Collection challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.
Answers to the Mystery Foto questions:
Identify:
- The location of the Mystery Foto
Locomobile factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut
- The race car and driver
1905 Locomobile racer driven by Joe Tracy.
- The approximate date of Mystery Foto
June 1905
Kudos question: What event was the race car being prepared for? Hint: It was not a Vanderbilt Cup Race.
1905 Gordon Bennett Race
Comments (3): Congrats and kudos to Steve Lucas and Dick Gorman for solving the Mystery Foto.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
Close-Ups
Locomobile Factory, Bridgeport, CT.
Note the buidlings match the Mystery Foto.
Comments
The location of this picture may be the Chadwick engineering works in Pottstown PA. The race car in the photo looks like the Chadwick “big six” driven by Willie Haupt. The date of the photo is around the end of October 1908. The vehicle is being tested for the Savannah Georgia Thanksgiving day race.
That looks like the Locomobile factory in Bridgeport, CT. I think that’s Joe Tracy driving the 1905 Locomobile racer in preparation for the 1905 Gordon Bennet Cup. Since the race was held on July 5, 1905 in France, the photo was probably taken some time in June of that year.
Mystery Foto #44…Photo location is Locomobile Factory in Bridgeport, CT. And the car is 1905 Locomobile with Joe Tracy in the driver’s seat.. Approximate date would be June, 1905. The Locomobile car was being prepped for the 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup race in France and later in the year the American Elimination Trial.