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PENNSYLVANIA'S MOBILE HERITAGE ON DISPLAY; Boyertown museum has everything from cars to sleds.(Revs)
Byline: BOB TOMAINE
Detroit eclipsed it, but southeastern Pennsylvania's place in automotive history is secure.
"Some of the people who were here-certainly Charles Duryea and people who are not too well known, like George Daniels-are important people,'' says Kenneth Wells, executive director of the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles. "The story is here and people who have never heard of George Daniels find it interesting. Here's a guy who was president of General Motors.''
The museum, (610) 367-2090, boyertownmuseum.org, focuses on regionally built vehicles-not just automobiles-such as SGV, Middleby and Duryea. The Boyertown museum was begun in 1965 by the late Paul Hafer, president of Boyertown Auto Body Works. The company built truck bodies until 1990, and one of its buildings houses the exhibits.
Several tiller-equipped Duryeas sit just inside the door. You will also see a circa-1900 Duryea tiller (an early joystick), about the size of a Little League baseball bat. Visitors use it to maneuver a small radio-controlled car, moving the tiller like a shifter and twisting it like a motorcycle handle. (We're told the modern radio-controlled car has had a few mechanical problems, though the tiller has been problem free.)
The Philadelphia Automobile Show exhibit displays a 1907 Dragon, a 1910 Chadwick and a 1915 Biddle. And the prototype for 2500 Boyertown-bodied 1950 Ford mail trucks isn't far from a 1912 SGV and a 1909 Acme. Our favorite would be either the Boyertown-bodied 1958 Ford ice cream truck or the 1914 Dile sport roadster, but being fair means considering the carriages, sleighs and all the other regionally made products. ...
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