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Tuesday, October 10. 2006

Duryea Motor Wagon Company

Duryea Automobile

While taking photographs for the Capitol Centennial Celebration, I noticed on a float in the parade, then on display in front of the Capitol Building a few days later, a Duryea automobile. The Duryea automobile was the first ever commercially manufactured, and it is not widely known that these first combustion powered wagon things were manufactured in Reading, Pennsylvania.


Apparently they had trouble getting investments due to low demand and difficulty convincing investors the crazy idea had a future.

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