Chauffeur with 1914 Renault Limousine
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To be a successful motorist in the early 1900s, you needed to have some sort of mechanical skills. Or you had to find someone who did. Wealthy people employed private chauffeur-mechanics to not only drive, but also maintain and repair their large, expensive automobiles -- rather than learn to do it themselves.
To be a successful motorist in the early 1900s, you needed to have some sort of mechanical skills. Or you had to find someone who did. Wealthy people employed private chauffeur-mechanics to not only drive, but also maintain and repair their large, expensive automobiles -- rather than learn to do it themselves.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1914
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.1774.CO.551
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Family of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
Dimensions
Height: 4 in
Width: 5.128 in
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