Description

Four principal figures in early automobile production and design pose on an early car labeled "Old Scout" and "Oldsmobile en route New York to Portland Oregon" which won a transcontinental race in 1905. Pictured are Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Augustus Post, Dave Hennen Morris Sr., and Charles F. Kettering.

Original caption: "Pioneer Motorists Hold Reunion

Two of the pioneer motorists who met at reunion luncheon in New York January 9, reliving old times with motor car officials attending the 1993 automobile show. Left to right: Major Augustus Post, only amateur to finish in the first run from New York to Pittsburgh in 1903; Alfred P. Sloan Jr., President of General Motors Corporation, and Dave Hennen Morris Sr., on of the organizers of the first automobile club. In background is Charles F. Kettering, Research Department executive."

Original credit line: Associated Press, JAT-1/9/33.

Used in: Boston Traveler, January 10 1933.