Wednesday 4th July 1894
Elwood Haynes successfully tested his one-horsepower, one-cylinder vehicle, the ‘Pioneer’, at 6 or 7 mph at Kokomo, Indiana. Now on exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Hayne’s vehicle is the oldest American-made motorcar in existence. Haynes was a trained engineer and chemist who discovered several alloys, including a stainless steel (discovered 1911, patented 1919) and was the first to use aluminium in an automobile engine.