Local farmers tried to ban them on weekends, horse breeders and sellers opposed their growing popularity, carriage makers were upset by their careless behaviour on the roads.

Local farmers tried to ban them on weekends, horse breeders and sellers opposed their growing popularity, carriage makers were upset by their careless behaviour on the roads. Even some clerics declared them a serious danger to people, “especially children.”

What in the world was this terrible invention? The “horseless carriage.”

Such protests didn’t stop the founding of the Chatham Auto Club in 1908. Led by such notables as Dr. T.K. Holmes (who soon after began producing his own car, The Chatham), W. A. Hadley, James Innes and Dr. G.W. Cornell, it was........

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