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This is the "Carter Steamer" of 1693 vintage which "Phi 1" Watkins of Lansing, Mich., shown at right, has entered in the national contest for the oldest working automobile in
Amorica.
"job" but that engine and running]
worst surface and gives local distinction of being the city's gear are of the original car.
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"Phil" Watkins, who holds the
most eccentric character, aspires to national fame through his own ership of an automobile riding on tyres stamped with the date #1892.”
Carter, according to the data Watkins was able to dig out in Jackson, obtained his idea of a three-cylinder "steamer"'from the up-and-down strokes in the ap- This date a hint to the vintage plica of power to the old high- has been substantiated by Wat-wheel bleyelo, kins in affidavits from former This one car, which he used owners and pilots. They show the about the streets of Jackson start- car to have been built by a Byron ing in June, 1893, was the only one Carter, who a quarter of a century of the kind he ever built, "though ago operated a bicycle shop in the later gained some fame with one Jackson, Mich.
and two-cylinder gas engines geared to "horseless carriages" byl disc drive.
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The car, according to the mass of certificates Watkins has obtain ed in a long seurch, among the
Was In Fire Department. older residents of Jackson, show the car was finished Sept. 6, 1892, Among those familiar with Jack- and the "buga" in its odd mechani-son's first "horseless carrlage" was) cal frame extracted sufficiently for former fire chlef, Ben King, who] it to take to the street for the first drove the car often. From mem- time June 3, 1893.
bers of the King family, Watkins) Watkins has entered the car in was first put on the right trail in the contest of the National Auto-his search for historical data on mobile Chamber of Commerce to his car. From Fred Van Brunt, find the oldest car in America. He still a member of the Jackson fire is also seeking to obtain a second department, Watkins got further prize that offered in the same information and new confirmation contest for the oldest car in ex-that the car, na he owns it to-day, istence and still with its original Is the same as it was during its equipment. These will be exhibit- first trip up Jackson's mun! ed at the New York Automobile thoroughfare. Show in January.
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Watkins, whose full name la Philip T. Watkins, is known to Has Original Paint Job.
thousands in Central Michigan as Because CitiB old "Carter "Phil." He dubs himself the "tyre Steamer" was in storage for many king" of Michigan, though his tyre years and has only been put back business is on a side street loca- into service in recent months, its lon in Lansing and is largely con- appearance is still bright and shin-fined to sale of used tyres and ro ink. The raised date, in rubber pair work. that is a part of the tyre, is mute He has his own ideas on adver- evidence of the claim for the age of both car and tyres.
Walking offers proof, In. bls aworn statements from old resi- dents of Jackson who saw it bullt and operated it in its earlier days, that not only paint and tyres now in use were part of the original
tlaing, however, and is frequently seen on Lansing streets in his on- cient auto, or atop a high-wheeled] bicycle, carrying a banner pro- claiming himself "Lansing's tyre king."
Watkins calls himself the "bank- rupt son of a banker" and at one!
time was identified with Lansing history as "Phil, king of the hoboes" and proprietor of a "flop house" known the longth and breadth of Michigan.
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