Tuesday, December 18, 2018

1903 First Meeting of the Dayton, Ohio, Automobile Club

From Horseless Age, v.11, no. 15, p. 488

First banquet held on April 8, 1903.

Interesting to note, just as the Society of Automotive Historians banquet menu uses various automobile labels to describe the food, so too did this event back in the day.

Menu items included:
Hot Spark
Slow Gear
Pinchers
Dynamo Apple Juice
Lubricators
Cylinder Oil
Rubber Cement

President was Carl Bauman
V.{. was Dr. A.F. Bowman
Sec. and Treas. was George Andruss

Planned club runs for the year included
April 16 -- Osborn, OH
April 23 -- Germantown
April 30 -- Middletown
May 7 -- Piqua
may 14 -- Franklin
May 21 -- Springfield
October 15 -- Washington Court House
October 22 --Cincinnati




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