Mystery Friday Foto #37 solved: The Oldsmobile headquarters for a 1906 American Elimination Trial racer
Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto?
Answers to the Mystery Foto questions:
Identify:
- The year of this American Elimination Trial
1906 American Elimination Trial
- Which manufacturer, race car and driver used this building as its headquarters?
The #1 Oldsmobile driven by Ernest Keeler. Keeler finished 10th- Broke front axle during lap 2. Lee Stohr notes the mechanician in the photo was Harry Miller, who would become one of the great designers of racing cars.
Kudos question: Where was this building located?
As discovered by Gary Hammond, the building was located in Westbury...likely on Jericho Turnpike/
Comments (3)
Congrats to Brian McCarthy, David Miller and Steve Lucas for identifying Ernest Keeler's Oldsmobile.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
Close-Up
From Greg O's Garage
The scanned article from September 1906 Automobile Topics stating that 'practically all' the teams were on the course.
Ernest Keeler
Comments
This is the 9/22/1906 American Elimination Trial. The building was used by the Oldsmobile Race Team - Driver: Ernest Keeler, Mechanician: Henry Clinton. Nice looking building & garage, but not sure of it’s location. This team had car trouble’s in the beginning. One of the screenshots below describes them pulling off the course near Manhasset due to carburetor problems. So maybe this building was along Northern Blvd Manhasset??
A real long shot of a guess here but I’ll say its the 1905 American elimination trial held on September 23rd. Start and finish near Mineola. Maybe this building was for the Franklin race car driven by Willie Winchester but its just a guess. The location of the building in the picture might be on Glen Cove rd.
That’s the building used by Ernest Keeler, driver of the Oldsmobile entry in the 1906 American Elimination Trial race. I think it may have been located on Old Westbury Road in Old Westbury.
This really appears to be someone’s residence with an attached garage, right off a main road. The article above details all but Oldsmobile, deep search in order.
Brian- (Greg here on Howard’s computer)Myself, Howard, and Art have scoured the Internet and all the hardbound reference books in the office archives searching for a clue, but since the Olds didn’t do so well in the trials, there’s not much info out there on the team. The above article was the closest mention of the team HQ’s that I’ve found.
According to the attached articles, Ernest Keeler’s garage was in Westbury. I also attached an interesting article about a race in Long Beach along the beach, reminiscent of Howard’s beach race. The Newspaper’s date & name is in the jpg id.
Gary, that deserves kudos!
Below is a image of the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Board Game ( 8/12/2011 Blog ) I know the Oldsmobile Race Team didn’t qualify. I wonder if the dark areas ( writing within ) display the headquarters for each racing team? Wording too small to read.
You came through, Gary Hammond : )
False alarm lol. The darker spaces along the game board are ‘problem spaces’