Friday 10th January 1930

Henry A Nadig, who many historians consider to have produced the first gasoline-powered car in the US, died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, US. The German-born mechanic living in Allentown, built his gas-powered carriage in 1889 two years before Charles E. Duryea’s first gas-powered automobile. Police forced him to drive the carriage at night, because during the day it scared horses. The vehicle was discovered rusting in a collapsed shed in Allentown, and restored and is on show in the City’s America On Wheels is an over-the-road transportation museum.