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Frederick graduated from the old Greenfield High School in 1888 and went on to Ohio State University. [ citation needed ] While at the university, he played on the football team in his junior year on the 1891 Ohio State Buckeyes football team , the first African American to do so. [ 6 ]
A Tesla Model Y electric car, the world's best-selling car in the first and second quarters of 2023. The modern era is normally defined as the 40 years preceding the current year. [ 70 ] The modern era has been one of increasing standardization , platform sharing , and computer-aided design —to reduce costs and development time—and of ...
The first Daimler car was a converted carriage, but with innovations that are still adopted today (cushioned engine mountings, fan cooling, finned-radiator water cooling). [3] France. Steam: Peugeot (later internal-combustion, and the first to be entered in an organised race, albeit for bicycles, Paris–Brest–Paris) Germany.
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Ohio (17 P) Pages in category "Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Ohio" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total.
Winton sold his first manufactured semi-truck in 1899. More than one hundred Winton vehicles were sold that year, [1]: 23 making the company the largest manufacturer of gasoline-powered automobiles in the United States. This success led to the opening of the first automobile dealership by Mr. H. W. Koler [5] in Reading, Pennsylvania.
The company responded to the increasing number of low-priced cars—including the $600 Ford Model N, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout at $650, [7] the $485 Brush Runabout, [8] the Black at $375, [9] the $500 Western Gale Model A, [10] and the bargain-basement Success an amazingly low $250 [7] —by introducing the Model 25, their cheapest four yet. [11]
The 1913 six-cylinder models were the first cars to employ the important advancement of monobloc engine casting which became associated with a production-economy drive in the years of the war. At that time, a 28-year-old university graduate engineer, Fred M. Zeder , was appointed chief engineer.
During World War I, Peerless manufactured military vehicle chassis and trucks. [1] One such vehicle, the Peerless armoured car, was manufactured for Great Britain with the Austin Motor Company of Birmingham being the maker of the armored body and Peerless the manufacture of the chassis. The chassis was manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio.