Production chronology1895
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ChicagoTimes-Herald Contest Car
Production1895
Recorded originUnited States
ClassExperimental open gasoline automobile
Earliest documented automobile of the Chicago Motor Vehicle Company, a carriage-building concern with Chicago offices and a Harvey, Illinois factory. The surviving summaries establish its entry in the 1895 Times-Herald contest but do not preserve a dependable factory type name, specification, result or evidence of customer production. The descriptive row records the vehicle without inventing a model designation and must not be confused with the unrelated Woods electric car.
Chronology ledger
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Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.
Research notes
At least one Chicago Motor Vehicle Company automobile was entered in the 1895 Chicago Times-Herald contest; no series total survives.