Major Bibliographical References Antique Automobile, vol. 25, No. 5. Acreage of nominated property - Quadrangle scale . All of lots 164, 165, and 166 in Mongars addition to the town of Union City, Darke County, Ohio. _ state 11. Form Prepared By Jimmy L. Bretz date November 15, 1979 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ national As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 according to the criteria and procedures set forth bythe Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service.
State Historic Preservation Officer signature organization date code Easting Northing Zone 1:24000 name/title Attest: Oakdale Verbal boundary description and justification less than one ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED UMT References Chief of Registration Union City Quasquicentennial Celebration 1849-1974,Chamber of Commerce Program; 10.
Geographical Data List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated For HCRS use only I hereby certify that this property js included in the National Register city or town L.Scott Bailey,"1891 Lambert:A Claim for America's First Gasoline Automobile," Xlocal UIM NOT VERIFIED telephone (203) 859-0591 AL116l Quadrangle name Union City 5.15.80 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE RECEIVED APR 1 5 1980 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Lambert-Parent House, Union City, Darke County, Ohio ITEM NUMBER 8 Westerville, Ohio. The building (Lambert Hall in memory of his wife) served whose home office is in Dayton, Ohio. George A.
Lambert purchased the lots in Union City in 1879 and completed his home 9 Bibliographical References J. J. Netterville, Centennial History of Madison County, Indiana (Historians Association, Anderson, Ind. 1925). J. I. Forkner, History of Madison County, Indiana (Lewis Publishing, Chicago, 1914 FHR-8-300A PAGE CONTINUATION SHEET Darke County Records today headed by John W. Lambert's grandson, and known as Lambert Incorporated (11/78) DATE ENTERED serving as Chairman of the Board from 1914 to 1919.A Lambert company exists house remained in the Parent family until l957. The Pioneer Pole and Shaft FOR HCRS USE ONLY in 1881. He and his family lived there during the early developing years of into national recognition. He sold the house in 1898 to his brother-in-law was organized in 1902 and located across the street from the elevator. This from the house.Mr.
Parent and his survivors continued that business until it the Lambert inventions and the Lamberts' businesses. burned in 1962.They also corroborated in the Union Automobile Company which Company in Union City was the platform from which the Lambert influence sprang Grant Parent shared interests in a grain elevator built in 190l down the street the college for almost 70 years.He also was an Otterbein Trustee for 27years, APR 1 5 1980 MAIN FLOOR BASEMENT Lambert-Parent House, Union City, Darke County, Ohio PORCH Room DININg. BATH. SECOND FLOOR BRAR BEP APR 1 5 1980 MAIN FLOOR BASEMENT THIS NOT TO SCALE.
Lambert-Parent House, Union City, Darke County, Ohio PORCH FRONT ATTIC SOIRS CLOSET KITCHEN MAIN BATHROOm 4-15-80 1133 Photos - Inventory - Entered MAY 2-3-1980 - Re-submit KEEPER OTHER TECHNICAL CONTROL Maps HAER Send-back Working Number Review HISTORIAN 2.3.81 United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 5.15.80 ARCHEOLOGIST State MAY 23 1980 Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Mr. David Brook Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dayton Byers/bjr Location Name 6/2/80 Delaware STATE Delaware County Cincinnati Also Notified Date Entered Montgomery County Darke County Hamilton County Union City Lambert-Parent House Honorable Thomas A. Luken Honorable John H. Glenn St. Mary's Church and Rectory Honorable Thomas N.
Kindness State Historic Preservation Officer For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Dayton Fire Department Station No. 16 ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER The Ohio Historical Society Honorable Samuel L. Devine Rattermann, Heinrich A., House Honorable Tony P. Hall Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue OHIO Photo: Mary D. Bretz, 1/80 Negative:181 Connecticut Blvd.,Oakdale, Conn. APR 1 5 1980 northwest Lambert-Prent House, Union City, Darke County, Ohio View of facade and eastern elevation looking Lambert-Parent House, Union City, Darke Count! Photo: Mary D. Bretz, 1/80 Negative: 181 Connecticut Blvd., Oakdale, Con APR 1 5 1980 southeast Ohio View of rear section of house looking MAY 2 3 I9 CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS T918 Photo: Mary D. Bretz, 1/80 Negative:181 Connecticut Blvd.,Oakdale, Conn. APR 1 5 1980 Ohio Lambert-Parent House, Union City, Darke County.
Historic postcard view of house taken ca 1918. MAY 2 3 Lambert-Parent House, Union City, Darke County Photo: Mary D. Bretz, 1/80 Negative: 181 Connecticut Blvd.,Oakdale, Conn. Ohio View of rear section looking south APR i 5 1980 Lambert-Parent House, Union City, Darke County, Ohio Photo: Mary D. Bretz, 1/80 Negative: 181 Connecticut Blvd. Oakdale, Conn. MAY 2 3 1980 APR 1 5 1980 View of eastern elevation UNION CITY, IND. - OHIQT UNION CITY QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF INDIANA STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS ROAD CLASSIFICATION Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey REGISTER NATIONAL DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA INDIANA OHIO 1891 LAMBERT lugust 1891 is on ile at the Smithsonian Institution. By L.
Scott Bailer IGNITION-Makr and brrak ignition FIRST GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE Copyright 1960 differential. A NEW CLAIM FOR AMERICA'S burctor patents issurd. H'EIGHT-S60pounds. APR 15 1900 John W. Lamberi's first gasoline cnginc motor car ronstruction drawing dated, 1891. AMERICAS FIRST A JTOMOBILE N 1891, a rear before the l'uryea Brothers built their first successful automobile, John William name. The Lambert car, manufactured from 1905 to World Lambert was driving a grsoline-powered auto- War I, plus trucks, fire engines, and farm tractors that mobile on the main street of Ohio City, Ohio. carried the Lambert name, seemed sufficient recognition for tempted to protest the claim made by any other inveator or brothers and the one-time widely advertised claim by Elwood Haynes that he produced America's tirst car.
Present-day trigued with the adventure, though clouded and somewhat fully producing America's first car, hiving discounted the frustrated at times, as to who was the very first to produce Haynes' claim. Evidence now has been stablished that credit a gasoline automobile for sale in the United States. One of One may well question why a claim for Lambert has been AUTOMOBIE, is to unearth undiscovered and unpublished , long forthcoming. This claim, although hinted at in sev- automotive history.
The controversial dispute between the eral of the early automotive journals, has never been pressed Duryea brothers, the myriad of other independent claims by various one-of-a-kind automobile inventors, plus the ex- treme difficulty of obtaining complete records on some 300 ally, was a financial failure because he was unable to bring the road of research almost as impassable as the main street as finishing touches were being put to the automobile, he of Ohio City where, in 1891, Lambert drove his first auto- mobile. It has taken almost five years to ferret out substantial mobile on hehalf of John William Lambert. The story starts in December of 1876. Lambert saw his Another reason for Lambert's reluct ince to press a claim was that he had given up this right to a close friend, Elwood operating machinery without using a boiler.
That evening, ited Lambert and obtained his permission to advertise the Haynes automobile as the first American automobile. When with him the following week to pick up the hides. Arriving at who was first with a gasoline automobile, Lambert refused the night before John Lambert dug into the still-warm ashes Lambert, during the controversy that raged on and off in This first rxperience with a gas engine was to remain in the trade journals and in the history books, was apparently his mind. As yeirs rolled by, he became aware of the Otto content with the recognition given to hin as one of the early of the Benz automobile, for which he had considerable criti- of the gearless, friction-drive engine as applied to the auto- of belts and pu lies." Lambert manufactured the U'nion automobile and in 1905 ()hio, was working on a stationary gasoline engine. An agree- manufacturer.
LAMBERT to participate in the controversy. pioneers.He had been dutifully accorded the title.Father automobile on any profitable basis did not exist. been obscured somewhat by conflict oetween the Duryea first gasoline engine when he was sixteen years of age.At in sufficient sales to place it in manufacture.Early in 1891 and got hi.first glimpse of a slide valve coal gas engine. horseless carriapes that were constructed up to 1895 makes Credit for building America's first ai tomobile has always cided at this early date that an immediate market for his John Lamhert.There existsno evidence that he ever at- and Benzengines;and records show that he was well aware distributed'a sales pamphlet by mail.'There were many in- automobiles and other machinery to his credit.In 1902.
cism because of its extreme loss of power"with its system history books give credit to the Durye: brothers for success- In 1S90.he learned that John B.Hicks of evidence in order to enter a claim for America's first auto- historians began to look back to unravel the mystery as to As an automotive historian, I have always been in- for America's first automobile should go to an Ohioan. the objectives of our society's publication, the ANTIQUE Haynes. When Haynes planned to promote his car, he vis- he told his son of the machine and invited him to return by Lambert or his family for two reasons. John Lambert felt that his 1891 car, although extremely successful mechanic- a tannery in Cireenville, Ohio, his father saw an engine Greenville, the!
discovered that the tannery had burned began manufacturing an automobile carrying the Lambert mobile.Lambert also had over 600patents dealing with APR 1 5 1980 1, James Swoveland, have been å resident of Ohio City southeast of Ohio City on October 9, 1871. 1 have very distinct recollections of Mr. John William invented by the said Hicks as above stated for use only on Lambert would let me into the room where he was build- U.S. Patent Office for his stationary, three-cylinder gasoline engine. Application number 375776 was granted. Prior to this, under the instruction of Lambert, Wacholtz uf Ohio City in the summer of 1891. I recall that there making of the component parts designed by Lambert to bring gine suitable for moving a three-wheel vehicle that Lambert 1 remember the year very well because it was the one drug store building had a block with the year 1892 cut Lambert.
The three-cylinder experimental engine repeatedly car had two large wheels at the rear and a smaller one caused crankshaft failures. To have the crank:haft remade required journeying to Cleveland. Lambert did away with two of the cylinders, reducing the stress. He also invented known to the Hicks' patent. to power his three-wheel carriage and he set torth specifi- cations and a price of $550 in a sales brochure which was mailed during the first part of February of 189l. Later that month, the automobile was running with the new stirrup- When Lambert first appeared with his car on the main street of Ohio City, the noise and smoke caused a crowd to the road, "Where in heaven's name is the horse?" Yahn was fifteen at the time and with Jim Swoveland, whe was be- and belched in the center of the crowd. in the Lambert. Lambert had taken a fancy to the y oung man Sworn Statement fringed top.
had designed. The above statements are true and accurate to the best were still stumps in the dirt street and Mr.Lambert had Machine Works in Cleveland.Wacholtz was to oversee the began to work on a modified Hicks engine at the Lowell There he undertook the completion of the engine.Gradu- Lambert was convinced that he had a workable engine and with a Mr.Smith who worked for Mr.Lambert.The about the production of the light-weight,three-cylinder en- ginning a 57-year career in the town's drug store,was con- of my knowledge. a German architectural engineer draftsman.The document, the car skid into a hitching rack.A number of men helped engine was still not running),ordered the unfinished en- in an elevator building he owned.
land vehicles other than railway or tramway cars.In De- tionship was over Lambert spent $3300.Before the end of I took several rides in this car both with Mr.Lambert was driven on the main street. secret.The room in which he did this work was located to maneuver the car in order to avoid hitting those stumps, cemberof 1890,John Hicks applied fora patent from the gine and its component parts to be shipped to Ohio City. manufacture a gasoline engine embodying the improvements times in 1891.
ing the automobile when most of the other fellows were Lambert in January of 1891 after members his first thought as he saw Lambert chugging down us pull the car backward and we then continued on our On one occasion he did hit the roots of one which made prior to the year when we had a big fire in Ohio City steering lever witha direct linkage toa single front wheel 1rode with Mr.Lambert in this first car on the streets in the front center.lt was steered by a lever.It had a ment was entered into to help finance the engine.Originally, into it. Lambert planned to invest only $200;but betore this rela- a special carburetor anda system of drives that were un- was a tiresome affair and had tobe corrected before the car type steering on the main street of Ohio City still in existence, provided for a "shopright or license to and the drug store in which ! worked burned.
Our new Locally, Lambert was known as an ambitious and suc- the initial road test was made in Lambert's 80-foot farm gather. James Yahn, now living in Van Wert, Ohio, re- 1890, a licensing agreement was drawn up between Lam- town was then known as Enterprise, later renamed Ohio City. By 1890, he owned the local grain elevator, an im- and he was operating a lumber yard. implement showroom. The engine was a success, but the ally the three-cylinder Hicks engine became a one-cylinder siderably excited about the horseless carriage thar coughed experimenting at night in order that it might remain Lamhert's experiments with a horseless carriage. Mr. not permitted to enter.Mr.Lambert did much of his since Iss+.Iwas born ona farm three-fourths ofa mile Swoveland was one of the first residents to take a ride APR 1 5 1980 engine for industrial and farm use.
Unfortunately, late in it was destroyed by fire. All that exists today is a certified In 1892, Lambert improved his one-cylinder engine and joined his father and brother at Union City, Ohio. Space at one of the family companies, the Pioneer Pole and Shaft Company, was converted for stationary gas engine manu- facturing. Business Hourished and an additional plant was built in Anderson, Indiana, two years later. The new.com- pany was called the Buckeye Manufacturing Company, John It was prior to this move to Indiana that Elwood Haynes would permit him to make the claim that the Haynes car could be promoted as America's first automobile. Later in car that was to participate in America's first automobile race :rparate entry, as was John Lambert. Neither car was able to participate because of mechanical failures before the race.
Haynes and Lambert watched the start of the race as spec- Returning from the race with renewed interest in the INVENTOR OF AMERICA'S FIRST CAR John W. Lambert is also considered the rather of the friction- then at the extreine rear, as well as in the middle on the In 1902, the Union Automobile Company, Union City, Indiana, was formed and production soon reached a schedule mental Union cars carried the engine in the rear, later in the extreme front and finally amidships. By 190. the Union Company was in full. production and incorporated in Union City, Indiana. were sold. At Anderson, Indiana, in 1904, Lambert built a second factory covering 300,000 square feet of floor space. By yine, and other mechanical felds. 1905, he formed the Lambert Automobile Company of An- derson, Indiana, and the Union Company went out of ex- and had previously admitted him on tle trial runs in the showroom.
A Mrs. O. E. Harvey is another former Ohio cars of 1906 offered eight different models, ranging from $800 to $3000. builders. Builders included Rutenberg, Buda, Atlas, Conti- nental, Trebbert, and Davis. The Lambert Company made tives taken in August of 1891 was a fail ire and he returned final body finish was accomplished with fifteen coats of paint. CYCLE AND TRADE of January :906 gives a com- plete and comprehensive description of the Lambert cars of dated in the latter part of February and March of 1891 1905and 1906. During 1906, the company began producing requesting additional information on th- Lambert car. Al- triction drive pioncered by John Lambert. By 1910, the Lambert Company of Anderson, Indiana. Lad over a thousand employees and production had reached his efforts to manufacturing a stationary, gasoline-powered experimental cars. senger in those enchanting days.
specifications began an eleven-year manufacture of automo- engine was fitted to a four-wheel buggy and operated with there was no sales potential for his autmobile.He turned istence.The new car designed and built to John Lambert's Itis interesting to record that several letters are on file an automobile powered by his Buckeye engine.By 1898,his the very year that the automobile was brought into being, 1895,Haynes invited Lambert to accompany him ina Haynes periments using the gearless, friction-drive engine. The Lam- in Chicago.Records show that Haynes was listed asa Lambert moved to Anderson to oversee its operation.
000 cars and trucks a year.Sales of the patented Lambert City resident who can attest to the date hat the car first ap- bert engines were placed at the extreme front of the chassis, ning on the streets under its own power as early as 1891, peared.Her father was one of the many who rode as a pas- To further substantiate the claim th:t the car was run- The Lambert cars were fitted with motors of Lambert some success. Between 1900 and 1902,he continued his ex- $1.25 to make photographs of the car.1he first set of nega- who were privileged to ride in America's first car. of ten cars a month.One source lists over 300 Union.cars sought out and obtained the promise that John Lambert tators. marketability of an automobile, Lambert began planning drive transmission and completed it in 189: This friction-drior engine acas transmitting power for the Unio: Automobile.
Experi- Lambert also had over 600 patents in the automobile, gasoline en- biles, trucks, fire engines, and farm tractors. The Lambert their own bodies. Upholstery was of high quality and the were signed for the Lambert. Lambert soon realized that design, though manufactured by many independent engine Walter Lewis, town photographer, wai commissioned for story. several days later to make the picture accompanying this photograph in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution along with a drawing anda handful of affdavits of those friction-drive vehicle were nationwide. Automobile journals and newspapers of this period recorded hundreds of public tests demonstrating the ability of the gearless, friction car steps of court houses, and other public buildings.
By 1914, the Lambert Company's success with their farm tractor permitted them to expand with a new plant in During World War I, the Lambert factories were converted for national defense and built shells, caisson wheels, and military fire engines. During this period, John Lambert's ead for the automobile industry. The Lamberts cor- recuy prophesied that a medium-sized, independent manu- facturer would have to expand to a tremendous degree or of tremendous mass production. Faced with these alternatives, his wife and chidren in a 1910 Lambert. The 1908 Lambert fra- the Lamberts decided to go into allied and associated fields ,f automobile manufacturing. lent of the company, William B. Lambert, is the grandson irincipal products of Lambert Incorporated still include au- omotive parts, production machine tools, and an entire range America today.
Grandson William Lambert, an AACA mem- er, Ohio Region, is extremely proud of his two Lambert 'ither in producing America's first automobile in 1891. y only à few Lambert cars exist, preserved for auto- f America: No Union car is known to exist nor are there The 1908 Lambert featured on the cover of this issue was stored by AACA member Ray Zuend of Dixon, Illinois. ightmare. In 1952, the 1908 Lambert won the Illinois State ie grandson of John Lambert, William B. Lambert, the as the Union, des aned and built by John W. Lambert in Union amaculately restored antique automobile had won twenty- City, Indiana. Noe the back scat folded flat providing luggage ve first prizes at various meets. William Lambert also owns a 1910 Lambert touring which id running today without benefit of restoration. The car John J.
Lambert, Jr., of Buffalo, has restored a rare and autiful AACA national prize winning 1909 Lambert tour- 2. John Lambert, no relation to the Lambert automobile mily, contributed greatly to the preparation of this article. Another plaudit of thanks goes to Albert Ruedy, owner mian Institution, Free Library of Philadelphia, and the troit Public Library, and to Mr. William B. Lambert, indson of John Lambert, who gave me freedom of access produced in Imerica today. The Lambert company exists today as Lambert Incorpor- his family records being driven up specially built 50 percent ramp inclines, eventually bemerged with one of the large companies capable ars and the tremendous pioneer contribution made by his ny engines of the Buckeye Manufacturing Co.
as found in original condition.The car is well preserved to the company's re-entry into the automobile business.Both El Segundo, California, to reach the western farm market. THE LAMBERT CO.SURVIVES TODAY only son Ray was president. air Championship Grand Prize.Prior to the car's sale to otive history by members of the Antique Automobile Club a1911 Lambert touring.Iam also indebted to the Smith- ited with factories at Dayton and Ansonia, Ohio. The presi- eservation to the fact that it was a one-owner automobile. Ie found the car sitting under a tree in terrible condition: as.found by R.D.Jeffries who attributes the car's excellent At the conclusion of World War I, thought was given William B.
Lambert, grandson of John William Lambert,with principal prodcts still mnclude automotiee parts, produc- tured on our corir is also orened by the grandson of John Lambert if John William Lambert and son of Rar Lambert. The if the finest lawn and industrial sweepers produced in ell weathered, rusted, with parts missing - a restorer's 1901 wagon srats. fathar and son accurately predicted the problems that G.A. LAMBERT, VicePres't&Sec J.W.LAMBERT, Treas. estimated around ] THE LAMBERT BUCKEYE: MANUFACTURING ÇO Parent clarified above. Members Association of Licensed Automobile Photo is not in vicinity of uckeye 7-30P Manufacturers under Selden Patent. the house. Some of the fine print is George Lambert hat) & Genl Mgr. SEP 19 12-5-1910 Ir.d They Go Hand In Hand John W.
Lambert Union City And The Automobile Industry Remembrance Of "The Great Oil Boom"Of Parker City Lambert then 7776-1976 Wheh tse Portrait of an Otterbein Family Summer, 1979 NATIONAL OWERS with Don't Miss Homecoming! Clark Lord All Aboard October 20, 1979 OTTERDEIN APR 1 5 1980 RECEIVED 1070 4070 W. B. Lambert, John W. Lambert's grandson and a great-nephew to George A. Lambert. owns two of the seven Lambert automobiles in existence. He is shown here with a 1910 Lambert. Mr. Lambert is chairman of the board of Lambert. Inc. of Dayton. the original family business descended from the Buckeye Manufacturing Company. proud building that served the by Mark Rowland College for seven decades Constructed in 1908-09 with a series Lambert. who died in 1906. The Lambert Hall, the center of music and of gifts donated by George A.
Lambert Lamberts were strong supporters of the art activities at Otterbein College for United Brethren Church, and George a manufacturer from Anderson. Indiana almost 70 years. passed to the wayside the building was completed for a total was an Otterbein Trustee for 27 years this spring with the completion of the cost of $28.000. Lambert added $3.000 serving as Chairman of the Board from Battelle Fine Arts Center. The four-story to the original family pledge of $25.000 1914 to 1919. All three of George yellow brick structure was razed in late in order to complete the building after Lamberts children graduated from July. signaling the end of an age for a the 1908 recession slowed construction The building was named in honor of Portrait of an Otterbein Family FINE ARTS ERECTED A. O. Barnes 28, G. A. Lambert's grandson, is the only living Otterbein graduate from his family.
He and his wite Mary live in Anderson, Indiana Otterbein - Homer in 1912, Mary Esther department chairman's position in Lambert Hursh in 1907 and Marguerite sociology and psychology at Otterbein. from 1909-1979 (Maggie) Lambert Barnes in 1903 At the spring commencement in 1922 the Hurshes commemorated their arrival the family's Otterbein tradition. Homer by donating a new organ to the Lambert Lambert filled a seat on Otterbein's Hall building Board of Trustees after his father's Edwin Hursh was an Otterbein death in 1929, serving until 1937 professor from 1922 to 1945, building Homer's daughter, Floribel Lambert the sociology department from a Peck, was a 1939 Otterbein graduate. three-course program to an ary Esther Lambert married a United eleven-course program.
Mary Lambert arethren missionary named Edwin Hursh occasionally gave organ lessons Hursh - later an Otterbein professor, in Lambert Hall and taught sections of and Maggie Lambert married B. O sociology, especially during WW II, Barnes, a 1900 Otterbein graduate Maggie Barnes died in 1916, and B The Hurshes, who were childless, O. Barnes died two years later in 1918, built a house on Central College Road leaving three children in Anderson, to live in with the Barnes children. All three of the Barnes graduated from returned from their missionary post in Otterbein - A. O. Barnes in 1928, Africa to raise the three Barnes Glendora Barnes Wales in 1930 and children, first settling in Anderson in a Dwight Lambert Barnes in 1934 house behind Homer Lambert's home Dwight's son, Michael Lambert Barnes, George A.
Lambert, the Otterbein on 8th Street, and in 1922 moving to was the only second generation Barnes benefactor who donated the gift to Westerville, where Edwin Hursh took the to attend Otterbein, coming here in the construct Lambert Hall LAMBERT HALL George Lambert's children continued when she served as special instructor. Lambert Hall housed music and art classes Indiana. Edwin and Mary Lambert Hursh automobile plant in Anderson in 1904, case, and the Lamberts entered the The history of the Lambert family is and the company name changed to the associated field of auto manufacturing strongly bound to their United Brethren Lambert Automobile Company in 1905, - making automotive parts and Church roots in Anderson, Indiana. In signaling the end of the Union car. By machine tools.
This period did not pass 1894, George and his brother John 1910, the Anderson plant had over 1,000 without a historical footnote - the William Lambert built a plant for the employees and the company produced Lamberts had at one time discussed Buckeye Manufacturing Company in 3,000 cars and trucks a year. George joining forces with a brilliant inventor. Anderson. The plant was originally Lambert, for a time, served as president named Henry Ford - and turned the constructed to manufacture stationary of the massive company, and John, who offer down. They felt the Lambert auta gasoline engines, but the brothers soon held over 600 patents in the automotive, was a superior machine entered a new field, with John Lambert was chief engineer and designer.
outside the line of George Lambert and In 1891, while living in Ohio City, into the family of George's brothers and Ohio, John Lambert had built a to include trucks, fire engines and farm sisters. Besides John, George had three-wheeled gasoline powered car, tractors, as well as autos and gasoline brothers named Frank and Harry that which many historians now feel was the sent sons, Arthur and Albert Lambert, to first auto built in the United States, Segundo, California, to handle the Otterbein in the early 1910's. These first preceding the claims of the Duryea tractor demand in the Western farming cousins were joined by Albert Glunt, the brothers. Lambert attempted to market communities.
But WW I cut short son of George Lambert's sister, and the car through mail flyers, but sold expansion, and ultimately signaled an Ralph Parent, who was a son of Eva none and gave up on the idea end to the Lambert automobile industry. Glen Dora Lambert's brother. These Lambert later renewed his interest in During WW I, the Lambert factories four first cousins even lived in the same horseless carriages, and in 1898 the converted to national defense, building rented house for some time while family began marketing a four-wheeled shells, cassion wheels and military fire attending Otterbein. carriage powered by a Buckeye engine, engines for the war effort. The Buckeye The development of the fine arts this time with some success. This Manufacturing Company was now program at Otterbein is paralleled by experimentation continued until 1902 headed by John Lambert's son, A.
the involvement of the Lambert family in the institution. Since the completion of was formed in Union City, Indiana, just ? Following the war, a decision was the Battelle Fine Arts Center, Lambert west of the Ohio border on State Route made not to re-enter the automobile Hall's purpose is filled by an excellent 32. Production soon climbed to ten cars market. The Lamberts guessed that the new facility. Even though the building a month, and one source lists that over will be gone, a school's past is recorded 300 Union cars were sold between 1902 manufacturer would not be able to in more than bricks and mortar, and the compete with the large mass production Lambert name will continue to hold a The Lambert family built a second companies. This did prove to be the proud place in Otterbein history.
medium sized independent when the Union Automobile Company gasoline engine and mechanical fields, The company business had expanded The Lambert-Otterbein tie is carried serving as the catalyst. engines. The company built a plant in El and 1905 Raymond Lambert. - HousE- in 30 Volumes Volume 2 Knowledge in Depth FOUNDED 1768 1STH EDITION Encyclopadia Britannica, Inc. William Benton, Publisher, 1943-1'73 Helen Hemingway Benton, Publisher Chicago/London/Toronto/Geneva/Sydney/Tokyo/Manila /Ser ui/Johannesburg Britannica Encyclopedia The New MACROPADIA with electrical igniticn, installed in a secondhand car- Illinois, and return, in November 1895; the distance was 54.36 miles (87.47 kilometres). Duryca cars remained on the market until 1917.
Despite this, many historians ternal-combustion automobile and that this distinction should be assigned to a car built in 1890 and run in 1891 ter Oliver Evans' first example. In March 1863 the maga- zine Scientific American described tests of a vehicle that weighed only 650 pounds (about 300 kilograms) and Another American, Frank Curtis of Newburyport, Mas- sachusetts, is remembered for building a personal steam carriage to the order of a Boston man who failed to meet the payment schedule, whereupon Curtis made the first recorded repossession of a motor vehicle. By courtesy of the Lambert Corp. industrial complexes in the world, and maintained per- :were judged.
were to remain less well known: the Belgian Minerva, Austrian Austro-Daimler, Steyr, Gräf, and Stift; and the Czechoslovakian Skoda and Tatra the latter tech- Spain had the Elizalde, and the classic J lispano-Suiza by the great Swiss designer Marc Birkigt was Spanish fi 1970s was an 1886 Hammel, made in De imark. the patent pending for 16 years. Some authorities credit Charles E. and I. Frank Duryea and April 1893 for tt ree-wheeled gasoline-engine car- mobile, in 1892-93. The idea for the car apparently orig- riages, and Gottfried Schloemer of Milwaukee, Wiscon- inated with Charles, and the machine wa: built by Frank.
chinist of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1899 produced an By courtesy of the Monlagu Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire : automobile that ran quite well despite its dependence on the most primitive possible carburetor: a wooden wick strated in Kokomo, Indiana, on July 4, 1894. Charles Brády King built a car in Detroit, the first of the millions to issue from the city, that first ran on March 6, 1896. Ransom Eli Olds, whose name survives in the Oldsmo- bile, was active in gasoline-engine research in the 1890s, were more than 50 automobile companies in existence- although the name automobile had not been settled upon (also considered were motor fly, diamote, automotive, autometon, mocole, oleo locomotive, motorig, bolvite, locomotive car, autobaine, autokenetic, and electrobat).
The three-horsepower, curved-dash Oldsmobile was the bile: 425 of them were sold in 1901 and 5,000 in 1904 Figure 6: Duryea, 1893, a one-cylinder gasoline engine with prospered. Its prosperity was noted by others, and, from U.S. car 1904 to 1908, 241 antomobile-mannfacturing firms went and Automobile commer- cially successful with creating the first American gasoline-powered auto- The Duryea consisted of a one-cylinder gasoline engine, first commercially successful American-made automo- puissance but great repute were Lancia, Alfa Romeo, sin, in 1890 built a successful car that still exists.A ma- thought of as the foundation of the industry in Italy,and The smaller European nations produiced makes that smo an automobile.He was successful in an effort to keep which other Grand Prix and Gran Turismo motorcars the oldest automobile still in running o der early in the electrical ignition.
Torino) in 1899,saw it grow into one of the weightiest riage.It ran first on September 21,1893.Driving a later claim to the invention of the automobil was attacked in are convinced that the Duryea was not the first U.s.in- that delivered fuel to the cylinder by capillary attraction. Agnelli founded Fiat Fabbrica Italiana Automobili nically interesting for its big (V-8) rear.mounted engine. model, J.Frank Duryea won the first automobile race in sonal control until his death in 1945.Fabricators of lesser vehicle.A number of steam carriages had been built af- lowed the Duryea brothers with a gasoline car demon- Chicago Times-Heral.l Race from Chicago to Evanston, Charles Black in 1891,aided by Elwood Haynes, con- Selden as inventor of the automobile. Selden had filed in running order.
The U.S.Patent Offic Issued patents in September 1889 after initially being interested in steam; so were Alex- ander Winton and James Ward Packard.By 1898 there. on May 8,1879,although he had not at that time built achieved a speed of 0 miles (30 kilometres) per hour. model is still prizcd by collectors),and the firm The first America in which more than two cars competed, the The Duryed was certaihly not the first U.S.-built road Figure 5: Hammel, 1886, possibiy the oldest automobile still Maserati, and Ferrari, for years the standard against nanced. Curiousiy, what some authorities believe to be structed a car in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Haynes fol- Metallurgique, and Excelsior; the Swiss Martini; the Isotta-Fraschini was founded about 1898. Giovanni 1895 when U.S.patent 549,160 was granted to George B. Union City, Ind." GRANT PARENT, STATES THE ELEVATOR WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1901.
NOTE ALSO THE ERRONEOUS STATEMENT THAT THE ELEVATOR WAS LOCATED IN INDIANA. New Elevator under course of construction at RALPH PARENT WAS THE SON OF WILDER GRANT PARENT. THIS IS APPARENTLY A NEWSPAPER PICTURE ON A STORY ABOUT THE ELEVATOR. JOHN PARENT, GRANDSON TO The fine print reads: "The John Parent Company' VOL. 24 NO. 5 $1.25 Historic Discovery: 1891 Lambert, New Claim for America's First Car APR 1 5 1980 MAY 2 3 1980 ANTIOUE AUTOMOBILE
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