Saturday 7th March 1896

The following report appeared in the Detroit Journal:
“The first horseless carriage seen in this city was out on the streets last night. The apparatus seemed to work all right and it went at the rate of five or six miles an hour at an even rate of speed.”
Railroad mechanic and Chicago auto race umpire, Charles Brady King built the car. Following the car intently on a bicycle through the cold, snowy Detroit streets was a lanky, 32-year-old mechanical engineer who worked for the Edison Illuminating Co. His name was Henry Ford.