Addendum: Early Baker Electric Cars
A rare look at the very first EV catalogue dated 1901
Please enjoy the full-size images of the first Baker electric automobile from the turn-of-the-last-century.
With every story I publish through Juicy History, I hope to add rare or never-seen-before images to excite your curiosity and expand your reading pleasure.
To my knowledge, this catalogue has not been published before in its entirety online. The following 6 pages are all scanned from the original 1901 Baker Electric Runabout car catalogue. Certainly, this is a fascinating as well as rare piece of ephemera, especially with Baker’s original photographs.
Be sure to read my story that was published this past week about The History of the Electric Car: Joy Riding in a Time Machine for the dramatic history of early EVs. Hopefully, even those who are barely inclined to show interest in cars at all will find this fascinating!
What’s next? Stay tuned! The upcoming article will be about the sweetly scandalous history of ice cream and soda fountains!
(With thanks to the Automotive Research Library of the Horseless Carriage Foundation, La Mesa, CA)
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