Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Mors

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  Jan 02 2017

  Mystery Foto #53 Solved: A Rare Look Inside William K. Vanderbilt Jr.‘s Long Island Garage in 1904

  This holiday weekend's Mystery Foto was a never-before-published image from the Helck Family Collection, gifted from Joel Finn in 1970.

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  Sep 28 2016

  The First Documented Automobile Railroad Crossing Accident in the USA as Reported in France in 1901

  As a follow-up to last weekend's Mystery Foto, the amazing Ariejan Bos of Netherlands has discovered the December 1, 1901 issue of the French magazine La Vie au Grand Air which described Henri Fournier's encounter with a Long Island Rail Road locomotive. Ariejan has kindly translated the article.

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  Sep 26 2016

  Mystery Foto #39 Solved:The First Documented Automobile Railroad Crossing Accident in the USA Update

  The Helck Family Collection challenged you to identify this never-before-published Mystery Foto.

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  Jul 05 2016

  Translation: May 1902 La Stampa Sportiva: Vanderbilt, Jr. Breaks the One-Kilometer Land Speed Record

  Professor Pau Medrano Bigas, Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Barcelona, has forwarded two articles on William K. Vanderbilt Jr. breaking the one-kilometer land speed record twice in 1902 as reported in the Italian magazine La Stampa Sportiva. Dr. Andrea Fedi has now translated the article.

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  Dec 02 2014

  Mystery Foto #96 Solved: Willie K. at the 1903 Eagle Rock Hill Climb in his Mors

  This holiday weekend's Mystery Foto was taken many years ago on Thanksgiving.

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  Dec 16 2013

  Mystery Foto #46 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt Jr in a Mors at the 1902 Circuit des Ardennes Race

  Last week's Mystery Foto was a pioneer race car driver- Willie K!

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  Aug 15 2011

  Willie K’s Cars: #4 1902 60-HP Mors Racing In Europe

  William K. Vanderbilt Jr. was among the first generation of people who grew up with the automobile. With his family’s fortune predicated on transportation perhaps it was inevitable that he was drawn to the latest innovation in machinery to transport goods and people from one place to another. Regardless, his…

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  Nov 24 2010

  Willie K’s Record-Breaking Hill Climb on Thanksgiving Day 1903

  In the early 1900s, people did not flock to Manhattan on Thanksgiving to watch the floats and balloons on Broadway, but thousands came to West Orange, New Jersey to watch cars race up Eagle Rock. The Automobile Club of New Jersey first sponsored races for various classes of automobiles…