Day 3.228: Old mobile

Henry Ford is reported to have said, "If I asked my customers what they wanted they'd have said a faster horse." Mr Olds may have also demurred at such a request, but at least tried to give his customers a literal horseless carriage it would seem. We saw this wonderful Oldsmobile at the Altamont fairground on Saturday.

Such vehicles show the origin of the term dashboard for the control panel in a car - the term originally meant the board that prevented the horses hooves kicking up mud at the passengers - instead it was dashed against the board.