Name/Title
1948 Glidden Tour - Thomas C Marshall Jr in the 1914 Stanley Model 607 winning the Duryea Drive climb, 1948Entry/Object ID
2012.01.276Description
Photo caption: "1914 Stanley winning Duryea drive hill climb."
Tom Marshall recalls this day:
"The last full day at Reading we had “fun and games” up Duryea Drive to the Pagoda atop Mount Penn. We
were told the distance up the drive and taped our speedometers, then estimated how long it would take us. The
one coming closest to his estimate was to be the winner. Starting near the end of the line with the 607, the
burner backfired so badly that I couldn’t keep it on and continually had to shut off the fire and let it burn out,
then light again without stopping. I was disgusted that I had taken so long when I stopped at the Pagoda, but an
official came running up and told me I had won! If the burner had worked properly, the time would have been
far less than estimated. My father with the Mountain Wagon and C. W. Kelsey with his ‘01 Kelsey Motorette
(he and Mrs. Kelsey traveled the route in their tiny three-wheeled car) divided the honors for the “most
interesting car” on the tour."
The 1948 Glidden tour started in Philadelphia, probably the morning after the Antique Automobile Club of
America Annual Fall Meet at the Devon Horse Show grounds. Clarence (with the Stanley Mountain Wagon) and Tom (with the 1914 Stanley Model 607) joined the other 40-plus cars on the tour at Fairmount Park with the route then
following the Horseshoe Pike (Route 322) through Honey Brook and Ephrata to the first night’s destination at the
Hotel Hershey. The tour continued on to Harrisburg, with lunch around Carlisle and where it entered the only
section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike then open at Middlesex (this exit is now called Carlisle). The second day ended at the famous Bedford Springs Resort, the “summer White House” in President Buchanan’s time. The third day consisted of a parade through Bedford Springs with the tour retracing its steps to Harrisburg and on to Reading on the fourth and final day.
See "Tom Marshall’s Weekly News, November 14, 2005" below for more details regarding the 1948 tour.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Photographic print: B&WSubject Person or Organization
Thomas C. Marshall, Jr.Collection
FAH Photo ArchiveGeneral Notes
Note
Notes: Black and White
Glued to same page as: 2012.01.275, 2012.01.277
Folder Title: "Historic Steam Car and Tour Photos"