Photograph of Line Drawing "The New Woods Gasoline-Electric Dual Power Automobile," circa 1916

THF103733 / Photograph of Line Drawing "The New Woods Gasoline-Electric Dual Power Automobile," circa 1916 / page 397
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Artifact Overview

This image from a 1916 issue of The Horseless Age shows a cutaway version of the Woods Gasoline-Electric car. You can see the batteries under the driver's seat and the engine and gas tank in the front. The Woods Dual-Power vehicle supposedly combined the best of both. Customers, however, had other ideas and the car and company disappeared in 1918.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1916

Creator Notes

Photographed by The Henry Ford Photographic Department, Dearborn, Michigan.

Collection Title

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.B.79831

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.125 in.
Width: 10 in.

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