AC designing new spark coils, 260
AC importing Nieuport ignition products, 249, 254, 257, 260
upgrading to the Champion Nuport plug, 260–63, 261
De Dion-Bouton spark plugs, 79, 115
Rajah spark plugs, 277, 278, 279–80, 281, 309
See also Albert Champion Company; Champion Ignition Company; Champion Spark Plug Company
Sphinx Manufacturing Company, 343
Spirit of St. Louis (aircraft), 348
Stafford, Will, 117, 120–21
Stanley, Francis Edgar, 125
Stanley Show of Cycles, 23, 25, 30
Stanley Steamers, 102, 138
steam-powered autos, 10, 101, 124, 125, 132, 138, 140, 148, 160, 169, 210, 242, 250
Stearns Bicycle Company, 165
steel, production of, 53–54
Stevens Institute, 293
Stinson, Billy, 117, 119, 120, 121, 163–64
Stranahan, Agnes, 305
Stranahan, Anna, 243, 247
Stranahan, Duane (Frank’s son), 245
Stranahan, Frank Duane, 241–45, 246–48, 247, 257, 265, 267, 272, 278–79, 303, 304, 305, 307
Stranahan, Lizzie, 243, 255, 266, 307
Stranahan, Robert Allen, III, 272
Stranahan, Robert Allen, Jr., 243, 247, 265–67, 266, 271, 282, 303–306, 307
Stranahan, Robert Allen, Sr., 243
Stranahan, Spencer, 243, 247, 248, 303–304
Strang, Lewis, 284
Stutz, Harry, 316
Stutz and Stutz Bearcat cars, 309, 351
Sullivan, John L., 142
Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq teams at Grand Prix de France, 329, 331
Taft, William Howard, 306
Talbot Motor Works and Talbot cars, 217, 329, 331, 343
tandem bicycles, 33, 52, 62, 77, 92, 100, 102, 105, 118, 157, 183, 230, 239
motorized, 81, 89, 100, 101, 108, 112–14, 116, 118–19, 120–22, 123, 143, 145–46, 153–54, 158, 167, 230 (see also motorpacing)
Tar Factory (Waltham), 104
Taylor, Edouard, 72, 74, 108
Taylor, Marshall “Major,” 105, 145–46
Tellier, Alexandre, 15–16
Terront, Charles, 35, 37, 39–41, 48, 230
Thé, Marius, 218, 219, 221, 224, 232, 318
thirteen as unlucky number, 251, 253
Thompson, Robert W., 36
Tiffany and Company, 250
“Tin Lizzies.” See Model T Ford
tires. See pneumatic tires
To-Day (newspaper), 35, 43
Torpedo Kid (electric racecar), 188
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri, 27, 81, 81
Tour de France, 93, 215–16, 219–20, 354
Tournier, Pierre, 46, 46–47, 56, 108, 123, 152, 217–18, 323, 354–55
Tremont Garage Company, 246, 247, 266–67
Treyvoux, Suzanne. See Chevrolet, Suzanne tricycles, motorized. See motor-tricycles Tuttle, Arthur J., 319
Twenty Years of Practical Cycling (Duncan), 84
Typhoon (pacing machine), 116, 120
U.S.S. Maine, sinking of, 109
unicycles, 15–17, 21, 97
Utrillo, Marius, 27
Valadon, Suzanne, 27
“Vampire, The” (poem by Kipling), 316
Vanderbilt, Virginia, 250
Vanderbilt, William K., Jr., 203, 250–51
Vanderbilt Cup auto road race, 250–53
Vauxhall cars, 343
vélocipede (prototype bicycle), 53
Vélodrome de la Seine, 43, 66, 79
Vélodrome d’Hiver “Vel d’Hiv,” 66, 81, 225, 238
velodromes/vélodromes, 10, 42, 46–48, 181–82. See also specific names, e.g., Buffalo, Roubaix, etc.
Verne, Jules, 36
Versailles Treaty, 322
Wagner, Honus, 105
Waldon, Sidney, 179, 190–91
Walsh, Michael J., 160
Waltham Bicycle Park, 98, 112, 117, 147
Waltham Manufacturing Company, 98–101, 99, 102, 104, 105, 140–41, 145, 151, 157. See also Metz, Charles Herman
Waltham Memorial Day cycling events, 115–23, 121
Waltham Watch Company, 104, 116
Walthour, Bobby, 147, 149–50, 153, 154, 163, 172, 175–76, 181–87, 213–14, 220, 226, 228, 235
Walthour, George Washington, 182
Walthour, James, 182
Walthour, William, 182
Wanamaker, John, 98
Warburton, James “Choppy,” 63, 64–65, 85, 86, 218, 225, 316
and AC, 61–64, 65–68, 70–75, 80–81, 85–86
problems with Jimmy Michael, 61, 72, 75, 114, 149
Warburton, James (Choppy’s son), 70
Washington Park in Chicago, 131, 134
Washington Star (newspaper), 153, 209
Watling, Mary E., 114
Westminster Budget (newspaper), 45
Weston-Mott Company, 292, 293
Wheels of Fortune (du Cros), 24–25
White, Stanford, 109
White, Thomas, 169
White Steamer (racecar), 169
Who, Me? Forty Years of Automobile History (Sinsabaugh), 9, 13
“Willy K.” See Vanderbilt, William K., Jr.
Willys, John North “J.N.,” 303–304, 305, 336
Wilson, Woodrow, 314
windscreens, 113, 218, 219, 226
Winton, Alexander, 131–35, 137, 139, 160, 167–69, 188, 190, 208–209
Winton Motor Carriage Company, 132, 137
Winton “Pup” (racecar), 169
Wired (publication), 80
women racing bicycles, 70–71
Wood, Gar, 324
Wooster, Stanton, 348
World (newspaper), 149, 150
World War I, 314, 317, 318–19, 321, 322, 323
Wridgeway, Charles G., 134, 135
Young, Cy, 145
Zimmerman, Arthur, 46
Zola, Emile, 215, 216
Author photo by Bill Pritchard
Peter Joffre Nye has written for the Washington Post, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, the Denver Post, and many other publications. Among his many books is Peak Business Performance under Pressure, which he coauthored with Bill Driscoll. He also wrote the script for the documentary The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America’s Jazz-Age Sport and converted it to a coffee-table book with the same title. He studied at Ball State University and the London School of Economics, and he earned a master of fine arts in creative nonfiction from Goucher College.
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