Tag: American Locomotive Company
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Jan 18 2025
Alco, Ty Cobb & the 1909 New York to Atlanta Good Roads Tour
After their 1909 win at the Vanderbilt Cup Races, Alco went on tour to Atlanta
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Feb 14 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #7 Solved: A 1912 Alco Convertible Touring Car driven by Dick Hovey
Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto?
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Oct 10 2020
Automobile Quarterly: The Mighty Alco- A History by Beverly Rae Kimes
The definitive article on Alcos was written by Beverley Rae Kimes in the 1973 Volume Number 2 issue of Automobile Quarterly.
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Jan 17 2015
A 1913 Journey to Paris in an Alco Touring Car (Updated: January 19, 2015)
Paul Macone of Concord, Massachusetts has forwarded photos and information on an Alco touring car that his grandfather chauffeured around France in 1913.
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Feb 26 2014
The 1909 Alco 40-HP Runabout Sold for $280,500 by Gooding & Company at Amelia Island
In May 2011, I had the opportunity to visit the famous basement garage of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum. Among the many spectacular automobiles in the basement was a 1909 Alco Runabout.
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Dec 02 2013
Mystery Foto #44 Solved: The #7 Alco Shaft Drive 6- Cylinder Racer in Elgin, Illinois
Last week's Mystery Foto featured a shaft driven Alco racer.
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Apr 13 2012
Mystery California Alco Racer Identified
VanderbiltCupRaces.com viewers were challenged on February 6, 2012 to identify the above Alco Racer. I believe Robert Rampton of Salt Lake City, Utah has solved the mystery.
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Feb 09 2012
Can You Identify this Mystery Alco Racer?
Rick Rawlins has forwarded this photo of a chain drive Alco and looking for assistance in identifying the car, location and drivers.
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Jan 23 2012
Walter P. Chrysler, the American Locomotive Company and a 1932 Newsreel
American Locomotive Company played a brief but important role in the career of a great American automobile executive Walter P. Chrysler. In December 1909, Chrysler's first manufacturing job was superintendent of the Pittsburgh Works plant of the American Locomotive Company.
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Jul 09 2011
In Search of Alcos: #11 The 1912 Alco Convertible Touring Car Stored in a Rehoboth Barn
Over the last four months, VanderbiltCupRaces.com has attempted to document the Alco "12"- the 12 reported existing rebuilt and restored cars made originally by the American Locomotive Company in Providence, Rhode Island. The eleventh Alco is a 1912 Alco Convertible Touring Car stored in a car barn in Rehoboth, Massachusetts:
