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The World’s First Automatic Transmission – The 1904-1907 Sturtevant Automatic Automobile
Posted on July 2, 2025 | 11 CommentsWhat was the first gasoline-powered automobile with fully automatic transmission? It wasn’t built by GM (which hadn’t even been incorporated yet!), but by the Sturtevant Mill Company in Boston, about […] -
Trailer Queen Of A Different Sort: What Is It?
Posted on March 31, 2011 | 3 CommentsIn a recent CC foray that involves old large trucks, a kindly person on the premises suggested I look into a particular trailer that was being used to store some […]
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