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1902 Jenkins Observation Automobile

1902 Jenkins Observation Automobile in The Boarding School Girls, Documentary, 1905

Class: Bus, Single-deck — Model origin:

1902 Jenkins Observation Automobile

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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Author	Message
-- ◊ 2019-08-13 20:50
Terra ◊ 2019-08-13 20:53	One of the earliest convertibles ever made?
Gamer ◊ 2019-08-13 20:55	I know it sounds crazy, but somehow it looks made for the film. It's very angular compared to cars of the period.
andrepa ◊ 2019-08-13 22:31	My idea sounds even more crazy, the reason for looking bulky could be it is first electrical golf cart back in 1905 Link to "gregnesteroff.wixsite.com" A.B.W Hodges in Grand Forks made one with very similar hood in 1905
s13a ◊ 2019-08-14 14:00	This is the "Observation Automobile" from 1904 or 1905, (not sure if this is the name or just how they were called, but it looks like it's just a sightseeing vehicle): Very similar (or even the same?) seen in New York (and the car in the main picture appears in a movie that was filmed in Coney Island, N.Y.): http://www.chauffeurbadges.com/24.html This could very well be electrical indeed, as a lot of platform-based vehicles of that era were electrical: Link to "www.chuckstoyland.com" Here's another "Observation Automobile" with a bigger seating capacity: http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001685.html P.S. despite the "open top", I'm not sure this should be qualified as a convertible, given the number of people it could carry, maybe it's more of a bus? -- Last edit: 2019-08-14 16:06:25
skywatcher68 ◊ 2019-08-14 16:47	Quote Jenkins Automobile Company [Jenkins] produced a tourist bus, which he called an Observation Automobile. This sixteen-foot long bus carried twenty-two rotating seats to enable tourists to turn in any direction. As he did with other businesses, Jenkins incorporated the Jenkins Automobile Company in 1900, under the laws of the State of Delaware. He hoped to raise $100,000, but failed to do so. When his financiers backed out, Jenkins sold his vehicles through an advertisement in the Scientific American in January 1902. C. Francis Jenkins article at Wikipedia I guess we should call this a 1902 Jenkins Obvservation Automobile, Bus class. -- Last edit: 2019-08-14 16:47:37
-- ◊ 2019-08-14 16:48	Nice work.
skywatcher68 ◊ 2019-08-14 16:52
skywatcher68 ◊ 2019-08-14 17:20	The bus in question evidently isn't the 22-passenger model referred to in my quote but everything's so similar that Jenkins must have been responsible for both. -- Last edit: 2019-08-14 17:23:27
s13a ◊ 2019-08-14 17:23	I was also wondering if 'sixteen-foot' (i.e. 4.9 metres for us in Europe) is long enough for the subject vehicle, but maybe it is -- Last edit: 2019-08-14 17:25:38

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