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Cadillac Show - Kokomo, Indiana Saturday, June 14

Started by Bill Hedge CLC 14424, June 09, 2008, 11:38:27 PM

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Bill Hedge CLC 14424

The Indiana Region of the CLC will celebrate its 35th Anniversary by hosting the Annual Cadillac, La Salle, Pontiac, Buick/Oakland, Oldsmobile show on Saturday June 14, 2008, at Highland Park.  This park is located immediately behind the Elwood Haynes Museum in Kokomo.  Registration is from 10:00 a.m. EST to noon.  Trophies will be presented at 2:00 p.m.  Trophies will be awarded by peer judging.  Trophies will also be awarded to the best Cadillac, Buick, Olds, and Pontiac.  Dash plaques and door prizes will be awarded. The $15.00 registration fee  is payable to "Cadillac & La Salle Club, Indiana Region".   Swap spaces are available at $5.00 each.

For additional information, driving directions, or registration forms, please contact Jeffery Shively, by phone at 765-721-1659 or by e-mail at "Cad19651941@yahoo.com or Bill Hedge at whedge@comcast.net.

Richard Sills - CLC #936

Good luck with the show, Bill! 

As I'm sure you know (but many do not), Elwood Haynes was one of the great pioneers of the American auto industry.  He built a successful gasoline-powered automobile in Kokomo in 1894, eight years before the first Cadillac!  An 1894 Haynes is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

   

Bill Hedge CLC 14424

Thanks Richard:

You are very correct, as usual!  Haynes is credited with developing the first commercially built automobile. Many of Haynes' inventions and possessions are housed in the museum.    As the inventor of Stellite alloy in 1906 and stainless steel in 1912, he gave the mechanical world two rustless materials of inestimable value.

On July 4, 1894, Mr. Haynes took his first ride in the gasoline powered horseless carriage.  On July 4, 1894, Mr. Haynes took his first ride in the gasoline powered horseless carriage. 

Kokomo is also known as the town of many  firsts. 

America's First Car  Invented by Elwood Haynes and road tested July 4, 1894, on Pumpkinvine Pike.
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First Pneumatic Rubber Tire   Invented by D.C. Spraker, President of Kokomo Rubber Tire Company, in October, 1894. The tire was made of strips of three-ply rubber, canvas, and other wrappings of vulcanized rubber wound around a slender pole.
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First Aluminum Casting   Invented by William "Billy" Johnson at the Ford & Donnelly Foundry in 1895.
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First Carburetor  Developed by George Kingston in 1902.
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First Stellite Cobalt-based Alloy  Discovered by Elwood Haynes in 1906 while searching for a metal to make tableware.
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First Stainless Steel  Invented by Elwood Haynes in 1912 to satisfy Mrs. Haynes' demand for tarnish-free dinnerware.
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First American Howitzer Shell   Used in actual warfare, was made by the Superior Machine Tool Company in 1918.
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First Aerial Bomb with Fins   Developed in 1918 by the Liberty Pressed Metal Company.
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First Mechanical Corn Picker  Developed by John Powell in the early 1920's.
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First Dirilyte Golden Hued Tableware Invented by Carl Molin in 1926.
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First Canned Tomato Juice  Developed by Kemp Brothers Canning Company in 1928 at the request of a Saint Louis physician searching for baby food to use in his clinic.
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First Push-Button Car Radio  Developed in 1938 by Delco Radio Division of G.M.
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First All Metal Life Boats and Rafts  Manufactured by Globe American Stove company, the lifeboat was developed in 1941. The life raft was developed in 1943 and was nicknamed the Kokomo Kid.
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First Signal-Seeking Car Radio   Developed in 1947 by Delco Radio Division of G.M.
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First All Transistor Car Radio  Developed in 1957 by Delco Radio Division of G.M