WAS HE THE FIRST?
PIONEER DIES IN STATES. The. man wlio built America's first gasoline buggy, and led the way by i virtue of his work for .many others to follow, recently passed away. He was. Charles E. Duryea, who died in Philadelphia in his 77th year. • For many years a controversy raged as to the actual origin of the first American automobile, and Mr. Duryea died in the firm belief that he designed and built the first automobile actually to run in America, also that he sold the first car in that country, that he did the first automobile advertising, and won the first two : American motor races." rhe honour was also claimed by the late Mr. El ward Huynes, and a Haynes car was accepted by the Smithsonian Institute as the first. Subsequently, Mr. Duryea's car was also placed in the .N atonal Museum and credited to him.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 300, 20 December 1938, Page 22
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