These days, it's commonplace to see electric vehicles on the streets of Wilmington. What's less known is that a century ago, primitive versions of electric cars were making their way, very slowly, ...

Robert A. Wampler was 49 years old when he killed his neighbor Joseph East on a pleasant Sunday afternoon in the rural Little Rock neighborhood known as Pfeifer's Addition "on" Pulaski Heights. Both ...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - There’s a new ride parked in the Montgomery Museum of Art and History. “It starts and it runs,” car owner Jackie Shelton said. “Sometimes it’s a little cantankerous to get ...

These companies have been at war for over a century to gain the title of the worlds fastest automotive manufacturer. Automotive racing is one of the world's favorite sports due to its fast-paced ...

In the mid-1920s, the city of Rochester encompassed 5-1/2 square miles and had 25 miles of paved streets. The city’s 14,000 residents lived in an area bounded roughly by Ninth Street Southwest, 13th ...

Flamboyantly professing that its product was the automo-tive heir to the Order of Knights Templar (formed in the 12th century during the Crusades), the Templar Motors Corp. was born in 1917 in ...

The Houghton company (and its ancestors and descendants) sold plenty of photography gear in Britain between the 1840s and 1961, though the destruction of company headquarters by German bombers in 1940 ...

Henry Leland, a machinist with a penchant for precision, is the father of the mass-produced American luxury car and played a key role in the formation of two famed Detroit brands. Leland and his son, ...

The above photo shows the location where the train cars collided. Nearly a century ago, July 3, 1920, a chain reaction event took place involving three trains that collided, killing 18 and injuring 30 ...