Tag: 1908 Fairmont Park Motor Race
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Mystery Foto #43 Solved: George Robertson winning the 1908 Founders Week Cup Race in Irving Morse’s Locomobile
Art Kleiner challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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1908 Locomobile Trophy Purchased for $128,700
Two weeks before the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race, driver George Robertson won the 200-mile Fairmont Park Motor Race with Irving Morse's 40 HP Locomobile. Robertson was rewarded with $2,500 while Morse (related to the Samuel "Morse Code" Morse) received a 31-pound, 3-foot sterling silver trophy "The Founders' Week Cup".
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Driver Profile: George Robertson Updated 2/28/2016)
A profile of the first American driver to win the Vanderbilt Cup Race in an American car.
Rollin’s granddaughter Betty King had this medal. She said she gave it to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum…