History Auto racing 1894-1942

This Mercedes I believe is higher horsepower than the red one. Can anyone tell us the histories of these two cars as they are surely known. Could the red one possibly be the Collins car ??

 

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Good memory - see post 2733 - Cannon.

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oRAnNWtVV...s320/jimmy+wilburn+coast+auto+racing+1935.JPG

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oRAnNWtVV...gOI/s320/winnipeg+free+press+july+21+1923.JPG

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oRAnNWtVVBA/SOz_X0KNq2I/AAAAAAAAA6E/wXFog8Zls7A/s320/Maxwell+1920+MR.jpg

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oRAnNWtVVBA/SA-Yme-DG5I/AAAAAAAAAcE/QdCJgU-EFN8/s320/ray+claypool+1923.JPG

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/15.jpg

 

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Bert Sutton and Fred Carson, 1938"[/FONT]

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford.asp​

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/04.jpg

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/13.jpg

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/08.jpg

 

Cannon who raced this car was from Hartford Conn. where the Columbia was manufactured as part of Popes empire. This photo is much better than the earlier one I posted.

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/09.jpg

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/16.jpg

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/18.jpg

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/24.jpg

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/31.jpg

 

http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langford/32.jpg

"Bud Green in a Phil Foster Dodge circa 1939"

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oRAnNWtVVBA/SA-Yuu-DG6I/AAAAAAAAAcM/7O_WAeG56Dw/s320/claypool+1923.JPG

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oRAnNWtVVBA/R_1LozjagAI/AAAAAAAAAW0/GzAN15xDenQ/s320/fred+Horey.jpg

 

http://alblixtracinghistory.typepad...010/03/v860-the-little-engine-that-could.html

 

http://winfield.50megs.com/4Jul1916west.htm

 

http://winfield.50megs.com/Hearne.htm






http://winfield.50megs.com/LouisLeCocq.htm


from the Don Radbruch collection

from the Don Radbruch collection

http://winfield.50megs.com/FredHorey.htm

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http://www.emercedesbenz.com/autos/...rts/mercedes-benz-history-the-mercedes-35-hp/

Exerpts from link:
"The first modern car was designed by Wilhelm Maybach, chief designer of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, in 1900. The state-of-the-art 1000-kilogram car with a characteristic low centre of gravity was made for Emil Jellinek, as the first vehicle to bear the &#8220;Mercedes&#8221; name. .............................."


".......... Jellinek finally convinced Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach to build him a powerful car. The new DMG vehicle was to enter the Nice races under the name of &#8220;Mercedes&#8221;. Jellinek and his team had entered races under this pseudonym since 1899. Even then, he realised that, as well as being powerful advertising tools for their manufacturer, high-performance sports cars also provided a foretaste of series-production cars of the future: &#8220;I want the car of tomorrow!&#8221;, he told the DMG engineers. He placed a bulk order for 36 cars for a total price of 550,000 Mark. .........."










"Mercedes 35 hp

In production: from 1900 to 1902

Engine: 4-cylinder, in-line

Displacement: 5913 cc

Output: 26 kW at 1000 rpm

Top speed: 75 km/h

Mercedes-Simplex 40 hp

In production: from 1902 to 1903

Engine: 4-cylinder, in-line

Displacement: 6785 cc

Output: 29 kW at 1100 rpm

Top speed: 80 km/h

Mercedes 75 hp

In production: from 1906 to 1911 (including successor models)

Engine: 6-cylinder, in-line

Displacement: 10,180 cc

Output: 55 kW at 1300 rpm

Top speed: 95 km/h

Mercedes 37/90 hp

In production: from1911 to 1915 (including successor types)

Engine: 4-cylinder, in-line

Displacement: 9,530 cc

Output: 66 kW at 1300 rpm

Top speed: 115 km/h

Mercedes 28/95 hp

In production: 1914 to 1924 (all models)

Engine: 6-cylinder, in-line

Displacement: 7280 cc

Output: 69 kW at 1800 rpm

Top speed: 130 km/h"

 

A Meredes Simplex at Newport RI. Did W.K. Vanderbilt own one of these?

 

A Renault lining up against the Turtle deck mother...

 

There was a Julian Brown drove a Chalmers-Detroit 40 in the 4th July - 1908 Wildwood, NJ. 1 mile street sprint, he finished 3 rd in the free for all behind Willie Haupt in a Chadwick and Paul Schill in a Fiat.