Tag: Kleiner's Kolumn
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Jul 27 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: The 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race Statement of Earnings
How much money does it take to run a race? Is profit the motive? Did the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race race keep to budget?
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Jul 27 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: From Vanderbilt Cup Racer to Jaguar XK120
Here's the story of how George Robertson's mechanician in the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race Elimination Trial 40 years later got to test drive a Jaguar XK120.
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Jul 12 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: Two Prominent Supporters of Automobile Racing
Following up on Greg O's recent post about the dislike of automobile racing by "Horseless Age" magazine, I present here three opposing viewpoints.
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Jun 18 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: Nassau County Surveys of Motor Parkway Property Transferred or Released (Mineola)
Nassau County land transactions near the Motor Parkway in Mineola.
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Jun 07 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: Preparing the Horse for the Automobile (Part 2)
As the automobile grew in popularity in the early 1900s, the problem arose of how could a horse and the auto safely coexist. Numerous articles described methods to harness (no pun intended) the danger that posed both animal and machine (and humans too).
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May 28 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: Long Island’s Other Proposed Motor Speedways
Several attempts were made to develop motor speedways on Long Island before and after the creation of the Motor Parkway. Here are a few.
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May 14 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: Baseball Great Ty Cobb’s Connection to the Vanderbilt Cup Race
Detroit Tiger slugger Ty Cobb was an auto enthusiast as previous posts have documented. Here is a connection between Cobb and the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race I've recently uncovered.
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May 10 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: The Horse and the Automobile Getting Along in the Early 1900s (Part 1)
Tying in with Greg O's recent post concerning the value of horses in the early age of the automobile I offer several cartoons depicting the wild ride both animal and machine had in the early 1900s.
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May 03 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: The Danger of Fire Along the Motor Parkway
Fires were reported on or near the Motor Parkway beginning from its earliest days to long after its closing.
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Apr 26 2022
Kleiner’s Korner - Nassau County Surveys: Stewart Avenue & The Motor Parkway in Westbury and East Meadow
Surveys obtained from the Nassau County Dept. of Public Works indicate improvements to Stewart Avenue between Merrick Avenue and Carmen Avenue were planned during the decades that followed the 1938 closing of the Motor Parkway.
