The Fast Times of Albert Champion
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Hanes, Elwood, 327
Harry D. Elkes Memorial Fund, 164
Harry Elkes Memorial Meet, 176–77
Harvard Automobile Club, 125
Haslingden Athletic Club, 64–65
Haslingden Observer (newspaper), 64
Hatfield, Jerry, 130
Haussmann, Georges Eugène, 18
Hayvee, Fletcher, 117–18, 119
Hedstrom, Oscar, 116, 119
helmets, Champion beginning to wear, 228
Hemery, Victor, 253, 285
Henry Ford Museum, 98
Henshaw, Charles, 116
Héroult, Paul-Louis-Toussaint, 77
Heurtaux, Alfred, 352
Hewitt-Lindstrom Motor Company, 132
high-wheeler bicycles, 27–29, 54
Hispano-Suiza (aircraft engines), 322
hobbyhorse, attaching pedals to, 53–54
Hoffmann, Franz, 163, 235
Holaway, Eliza, 114–15, 141
Hôtel Crillon, 345, 354, 356, 360
Hôtel Meurice, 345, 354, 355
Huff, Edward “Spider,” 168
“Human Catapult,” Champion known as, 59
Humber, Thomas, and Humber cycles, 38, 39, 41, 60
Humphrey, Elizabeth, 104
Huret, Constant, 81, 81–84, 88, 207, 218, 224, 230, 323, 354, 355
Hyatt Roller Bearing Company, 139
Imperial Bicycle Company, 208
In Debt (horse raced against a motor-tricycle), 134
Indianapolis famous for auto racing, 170, 171, 172
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 287, 301, 309
Indiana State Fairgrounds, 164–65, 170–71
Indian Motorcycles, 157
Inghibert, Louis, 329, 330
“In My Merry Oldsmobile” (song by Edwards and Bryan), 211, 237
internal combustion engine, development of, 77–80
International Exhibition trade show in 1896 (Berlin), 68
J. P. Morgan, 325
James Gordon Bennett Cup Race, 208
“Jean de Sans Terre.” See Giffard, Pierre
Jeffery, Thomas B., 208
Jiel-Laval, Pierre, 35, 38, 39–41
Joe Patchen (horse), 136
Johnson, Jack, 146
Journal de Roubaix (newspaper), 92, 94
Joy, Henry Bourne, 179, 188, 189, 201–205, 205, 208
Julie Elise Champion vs. Albert Champion, 336
Kahn, Albert, 201, 203
Kennedy, James C., 146, 148, 149, 151–52
Kent, Fred, 117, 119, 120
Kerman, Olta de, 250, 253–54, 255, 256, 301, 319
Kerosene, 139
Kettering, Charles, 321–22, 354
Keynes, John Maynard, 131
King of the Long Distance. See Huret, Constant
Kipling, Rudyard, 316
Kodak Company, 207
La Chaîne Simpson, 81, 81
La Fabuleuse Histoire du Cyclisme (Chany), 207, 218
Lafayette Esquadrille, 348
Lallement, Pierre, 53, 54
LaRoche, Frederic A., 194, 195
Lartigue, Marius, 72, 74
L’Automobile-Club de France, 78
L’Auto-Vélo (sports newspaper) (renamed L’Auto), 88, 96, 214, 215, 218, 219, 224–25, 226, 233, 354
La Vie au Grand Air (publication), 150, 222, 223, 233
La Vie Illustrée (weekly publication), 226
Lavin, Jack, 191
Lawson, Gussie, 184, 186, 187
League of American Wheelmen, 116
Leander, George, 175, 176, 212, 217, 224, 225–26, 228
Le Chat Noir (cabaret), 27
Le Cycle (newspaper), 56, 57–58
Lefèvre, Géorge, 219–20, 221, 225, 226, 230
Lefèvre, Victor, 219
le gosse rouge. See Taylor, Edouard
Lehigh University Bicycle Club, 137
Le Journal de l’Automobile. See Le Vélo (newspaper)
Leland, Henry M., 293–94
Le Petit Journal (newspaper), 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41
Les Gosses Blanc (Paris junior championship), 72–75, 238
Levallois-Perret (Paris suburb)
AC in, 257, 323, 343, 345, 352, 354
Clément in, 43, 69, 78, 79, 152, 238
Nieuport in, 238, 240
Levassor, Émile, 53, 54, 137, 217
Le Vélo (newspaper), 82, 89, 91, 95, 96, 214–16, 219, 223, 229
becoming Le Journal de l’Automobile, 235
Liberty (aircraft engines), 322
Lindbergh, Charles, 348, 349, 350
Lindstrom, Jeanette, 132
Linton, Tom, 88, 229
“Lisette” (Amélie le Gall racing as), 70, 71–72, 80, 86
Little, William, and Little Motor Company, 296, 298
“Little Giant.” See Durant, William C. “Little Wonder.” See Champion, Albert Lloyds of London, 348
Locomobiles, 125
London Athletic Club, 65
London world championships, 228
Long Island Automobile Club, 187
Loos, Anita, 354
Loubet, Émile, 217
Louis XIV (king), 230, 241
L’Union Vélocipedique de France, 228
Lusitania, sinking of by Germans, 314
Lynn Gas and Electric Company, 100, 102, 123, 148, 151
MacEachern, Archie, 116–17, 119, 120, 121, 122, 149–50
MacMahon, Patrice de, 14
Madisons (two-rider cycling track races), 112
Madison Securities, 307
Madison Square Garden, 88, 107
AC joining Madison Square Garden syndicate, 151
banning of motor tandems, 146
Elkes-Champion match race, 109–12
New York Automobile Show, 130, 137–40, 199–200, 335
sixes (six-day bicycle endurance challenges), 110–11, 140, 148–50, 183, 212, 226, 235, 237
magnetos, 78, 112, 204, 237, 238, 240, 241, 245, 249, 267, 269, 271, 277, 280, 283, 287, 305
“Man, The.” See Durant, William C. Manchester Athletic Club, 65
“Manchester Giant,” 154
Manhattan Beach Track, 212
Manufacturers’ Challenge Cup, 168–69, 194
Marks, Dudley, 88, 90, 97, 103, 108–13, 118–22, 123, 127
Marmon cars, 309, 351
Marr, Walter, 284, 286
Martin, Marie Celeste, 244–45
Massachusetts Automobile Club, 162
Massachusetts Highway Commission, 247
Massachusetts Motor Company, 305
Maxwell-Briscoe Boston Company, 259
Maxwell touring car, 258–59, 268
McCarry, Mary, 126
McClure, S. S., 69
Médinger, Paul, 230
Mercedes (racecar), 203, 251, 252–53
Mercier, François, 218
Metz, Charles Herman, 97–105, 100, 107, 109–11, 112–14, 119, 123–26, 127–29, 130, 137, 151, 153, 293
committing to gas-powered engines, 123, 148
companies owned by, 104, 116, 157 (see also Orient Cycles; Orient Motorcycles; Waltham Manufacturing Company)
Men of Metz, 104, 128–29
work with Clough and Coffin, 101, 123–24, 148, 151
Meyers, Julius, 156
Michael, Jimmy, 56, 58, 62, 68, 74–75, 86, 109, 116, 118, 129, 146, 218, 224, 237, 238
problems with Warburton, 61, 72, 75, 114, 149
Michaux, Pierre and Ernest, 53
Michelin, André and Edouard, and Michelin tires, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 215, 253
Michigan Drug Company, 165
Miles, Harry, 117, 120–21
Miller, Charles, 110
Mills, Arba K., 338
Milton, Tommy, 324–25
Misti-Mifliez, Ferdinand, 49
Mistinguett (French cabaret singer), 144
Mobile Company of America, 140
Model A Ford, 351
Model C Packard, 189
Model K Packard, 190
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Model L Packard, 190
Model N Packard, 201, 203, 204–205
Model 10 Buick, 286
Model T Ford, 280, 289, 297, 305, 310, 344, 351
Montreal Daily Star (newspaper), 77, 101
Morris-Cowley cars, 343
Mors cars, 189, 200, 238, 285
Mosley, C. C., 325
Motor (magazine), 198
motorcycle racing. See Clément Gladiators (motorized bicycles); Orient Motorcycles
motorpacing, 79, 149
demonstrations, 144, 149, 237
fatalities, 163, 237, 238, 318
motorpace racing, 100, 113, 158, 163, 183, 212
AC racing, 120, 144–45, 154, 158, 181, 204, 209, 211–12, 227
French motorpace championships, 211, 318
Paris-Roubaix race, 89–90, 91
US motorpace championships, 147, 179, 181, 187, 213, 216, 220
world motorpace championships, 227, 229, 232
motor-tricycles, 78–79, 110–11, 127, 128, 138, 141
racing, 131, 133–34, 136, 137, 144
used in motorpacing, 81–82, 86, 88–90, 91–92, 93, 108, 109, 113, 125, 126
Motor Vehicle Review (publication), 132
Motor World (magazine), 309
Mott, Charles Stewart, 104, 292, 310–11, 313, 314, 322, 354
“Mummy” tires, 31
Murphy, Charles M., 101
Murphy, Jimmy, 328, 330–33, 335
Musical Society of the Vélodrome, 95
Nash, Charlie, 289–90, 340
Nash, Mae (marrying De Guichard), 340
National Academy School of Fine Arts, 339
National Aeronautic Association, 348
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, 148
National Automobile Syndicate, 210, 217
National Cycling Association (US), 186
National Cycling Union (NCU), 70, 71, 80, 86
Nelson, Joe, 142, 146
Nelson, Johnny, 101–102, 129, 142, 146
Newkirk, Jed, 183–84, 186, 209
New York American (newspaper), 360
New York Automobile Show, 130, 137–40, 199–200, 335
New York Daily News (newspaper), 355
New York Motorcycle Club, 157
New York Stock Exchange, 272, 274, 291, 312, 325
New York Sun (newspaper), 9, 200
New York Times (newspaper), 110, 176, 194, 195, 196
New York World (newspaper), 196, 254–55
Nieuport, Edouard, 73, 238–40, 257
ignition products made by, 249, 254, 257, 260, 348
making Nieuport Aéroplanes, 314
999 (racecar), 10–12, 160–62, 168–71, 170, 176, 190, 209
designed by Henry Ford, 11–12, 166, 168, 169, 170, 188, 189, 201
Nolan, May, 117, 120
Nungesser, Charles, 348
Oakland cars, 305
Oakland Motor Company, 287
Ohio Automobile Company, 188, 189
Ohio Model A (car), 137
Oldfield, Berna Eli “Barney,” 10–12, 160, 161–62, 165–72, 170, 190, 198, 208, 209, 285, 328, 330, 345, 346
records of, 162, 164–65, 171, 174, 176, 178
See also 999 (racecar)
Oldfield, Henry Clay, 165
Olds, Ransom Eli, 102, 138–39, 210–11, 269, 294, 309, 340
Oldsmobiles, 102, 189, 203, 210–11, 268, 281, 287, 344
Olds Motor Works, 210, 269, 294
Old Timers Club, 327
Oleo (spark plug company), 343
Olsen, Ernie, 330–31
Opel, Fritz, 81
Orient Cycles, 97, 98, 99, 105, 107, 112, 114, 120, 147, 157
Orient aero-pacing bicycles, 142, 143
Orient Motorcycles, 149, 151, 157–58, 176
development of, 124–25, 128–30
racing Orient motor-tricycle, 132–36, 133, 135
Origet, J., 332
Oriten (longest bicycle in the world), 98, 100
Orteig Prize (first flight across Atlantic), 348, 350
Overland Automobile Company, 303, 304, 305, 336
Packard, James Ward, 132–33, 137, 179, 189, 203
Packard cars, 189, 190, 201, 203, 204–205, 297. See also Gray Wolf (racecar)
Packard Electric Company, 137
Packard Motor Company, 179, 188, 198, 200–201, 204, 260
Palais des Arts Libéraux vélodrome, 46, 47, 55–57
Paléologue, Jean de, 49
Panhard, Réne, 53, 54, 137, 217
Panhard (racecar), 250
Panhard-Levassor Motor Company, 137
Panhard Motor Company, 217, 238, 285, 322
Panic of 1893, 104
Panic of 1907, 272
Parc des Princes (outdoor racing track), 87–89, 152, 207, 216, 218, 220, 225, 226, 228–34, 235, 237–38
Pardee, K. C., 198
Paris, France, 13–14, 17–19, 55, 83, 96, 141
Exposition Universelle (1889), 19, 29–30, 47
following the Franco-Prussian War, 19, 22, 27
Paris Exposition of 1855, 77
Paris Auto Salon, 345, 353
Paris-Brest-et-retour (endurance bicycle race), 35–42
Paris-Roubaix race, 80, 89–96, 361
Park Square Coliseum (velodrome), 107, 112, 142, 144, 212, 267
Parrish, Maxfield, 69
Peck, Lon, 119, 129
Peerless Motor Company, 12, 160, 161–62, 202, 260
Penfield, Edward, 99
Penny-Farthing (high-wheelers) bicycles, 27–29, 54
Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, 356–57, 357
Pershing, John J. “Black Jack,” 318
Peugeot family and Peugeot cars, 37–38, 217, 323, 343
Phebus cycles, 60
Phélypeux, Louis, 270
“Phenomenon of ’95.” See Cooper, Tom Piedmont Coliseum, 181, 182–87, 213–14
Pierce, George, 208, 316
Pierce Bicycle Company, 208
Pierce-Arrow Motor Company, 208, 309
Planche, Etienne, 296, 300
pneumatic tires, 23, 24, 25, 30–31, 32, 36, 37, 41, 42, 132
Police Gazette (tabloid), 155
“Pompadour Jim.” See Corbett, James J. “Jim”
Pontchartrain Hotel, 269–70
Pontiac Motor Company, 287
Pope, Albert, 61, 69, 100, 102, 104, 208, 304–305
Pope-Toledo cars, 304–305
postmasters looking for best vehicles to replace horses, 131
Powers, Patrick T., 146, 148, 151
Pratt and Whitney Company, 69
Prest-O-Lite headlights, 267, 286
Prest-O-Lite Trophy Race, 287
Prince, Jack, 181–82, 183–84, 185–86, 187, 213
Psst! (gossip sheet), 49
Pulitzer, Joseph, 148–49
Pulitzer Cup, 325
RAC. See Royal Automobile Club (RAC) racecars. See specific names, e.g., 999; Bullet and Bullet II; Gray Wolf; Greyhound; Peerless; Red Devil
Rajah spark plugs, 277, 278, 279–80, 281, 309
Ramberg, Conrad A., 347
Rambler Cycles, 117, 153, 208
Rambler Motor Company, 117, 153, 208, 340
Raskob, John Jakob, 313
Ravaud, Charles, 223, 229, 233
records, racing/speed AC’s records
in cycling, 74, 89, 144, 146
distance record for unicycling, 21
more than 100 records in 1902, 153, 154
in motorcycle racing, 10, 130, 135, 161, 173, 174, 177, 178, 198, 242, 288
Chevrolet’s auto-racing record in 1906, 288
Contenet’s world paced cycling record, 220
Desgrange’s first world hour record for bicycles, 55
Elkes setting motorpacing records, 163
Fournier’s motor-tricycle pacing the fasted mile, 144
Henry Ford’s one-mile auto-racing record, 202–203
Milton’s auto-racing record speed, 32
4–25
Murphy’s bicycling a mile in less than a minute, 101
Nelson’s breaking records in Montreal, 101–102
Nieuport’s air-speed record in 1911, 314
Oldfield’s auto-racing records, 12, 162, 164–65, 171, 176
Oriten (ten-person bicycle) setting speed record, 98
Schmidt’s one-mile auto-racing on sand record, 202
Vanderbilt Jr. auto-racing land-speed record, 203
Warburton’s distance-running record, 65
Wood’s power-boat speed record, 324
Red Devil (racecar), 169, 170–71
Reichel, Franz, 226
Renault, Marius, 83
Renault (car company), 187, 188, 193, 194, 238, 343
Renault brothers, 217
Renoir, Pierre-August, 27
Revere Beach velodrome, 147, 208, 209
Rice, Grantland, 184–85, 187
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 348
Ridgeway, Charles G., 160, 161–62
Robbins, John C., 103–104, 113, 124, 125, 130
Robl, Thaddhaus, 227–28, 234–35
Roebling-Planche (racing car), 296
Rohlfs, Roland, 324
Roosevelt, Theodore, 110
Roubaix cycling club, 94
Roubaix Vélodrome, 59, 89–90, 319
Royal Aquarium, Warburton’s use of, 70–71
Royal Automobile Club (RAC), 294
Royal Mail roadster, 298
Ruel, John, 117, 120
Runabouts (Oldsmobiles), 189
Runabouts (tested by Metz and Champion), 113, 125
Rutt, Walter, 227
Ryan, Everett, 116, 119, 121, 122
SAE. See Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
St. Louis Globe-Democrat (newspaper), 136
St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, 210, 217
San Toy (Chinese musical comedy), 244
Satie, Erik, 27
Saunders, Bill, 208, 213
Savannah Coliseum, 187
Savoy Hotel, 241–42, 243, 244, 247, 266
Schmidt, Charles, 188–91, 196, 202–203
Schmidt, Henri Albert, 260–63, 271, 280, 282, 314, 317, 324–25
Scientific American (magazine), 132
Seattle Daily Times (newspaper), 346
Selective Service Act (US), 317, 321
Shank, Charles B., 169
Sherman, William T., 182
Showman (Brady), 109
Simar, César, 224, 225, 228, 235
Sinsabaugh, Chris, 9, 13, 140, 327–28
sixes (Madison Square Garden six-day bicycle challenge), 110–11, 140, 148–50, 183, 212, 226, 235, 237
Skinner, Kenneth A., 133–34, 136
Sloan, Alfred P., Jr., 139, 258, 290, 321–23, 325–26, 326, 354
Sloan, Ted, 114
Société des Bougies A.C.-Titan, 343, 349, 354
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 292–95, 328
Sorenson, C. E., 332
Spanish-American War, 109, 115
spark plugs, 295, 306, 309, 315
AC designing, developing, improving spark plugs, 237–63, 269, 279–80, 283, 306–307, 315, 324