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The twisting and winding history of electric cars is as complex as the wiring used to make them. Please browse the gallery below for all the images and videos related to the exhibition. Click on an item to see an enlarged image with description or to play the video clip.
Advertising for an open-topped gasoline car. Headline reads “THE LUXURIOUS AND DEPENDABLE CADILLAC”
Advertising image showing a boxy electric delivery truck. Caption reads “TATE ELECTRICS LIMITED / The Electric Automobile of to-day is the final choice of an experienced and discriminating motor-buying public. Tate Electrics are the last word in Electric Automobiles.”
Newspaper advertisement showing a four-door electric car. Headline reads “The Car That’s Great on the Hills / Peck Electric / 1913 Model C-4”
Colour advertising illustration of two well-dressed men gathered around a convertible-top electric car, in front of a pastoral scene of a golf course.
Advertising image showing three well-dressed young women gathered around an electric car in an outdoor environment, with two young men arriving in an electric sports car in the background. Headline reads “The TATE / Silent - Speedy - Luxurious - Electric”
Black and white photograph of a skeletonized automobile parked in a snowy parking lot. Writing on its radiator reads “GALT MOTOR CO / GALT, ONTARIO”
Black and white photograph of an automobile with a single headlight parked at a garage. Writing on the vehicle’s windshield reads “Storage-Gas-Electric”
Black and white photograph of a boxy electric car designed to resemble a gasoline automobile. Headline reads Milburn Light Electric
Colour advertising image showing two businessmen driving an electric car in a suburban setting. Headline reads “More Men Now Prefer the Raulang!”
Black and white photograph of a man in a fur coat leaning against an automobile in deep snow. Farm buildings and fields are visible in the background.
Colourized photograph of a man in a suit sitting in the front seat of a 1920s-style convertible automobile.
Black and white photograph of a flat-bed industrial vehicle in a lumber yard, with stacks of wood in sheds in the background.
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