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About Quiz # 267: 1898 Hay & Hotchkiss

This was one of those quizzes for which you either knew the answer or you didn’t as nobody hazarded a guess! We received six answers, all of them correct. The replies came from Chris Paulsen, Charles Wilmarth, Francisco Carrion, Luke Chennell, George Albright and Peter Martin all identifying our quiz car as an 1898 Hay & Hotchkiss. But it was Chris’s answer that told us all we wanted to know: “It is an 1898 Hay & Hotchkiss, built in New Haven, Connecticut by Walter Hay and Emerson Hotchkiss. The Hay & Hotchkiss Co had approximately 12-20 employees and built buggies and carriages except for this one auto. The engine is the frictionless gasolene motor; a 4-cylinder opposed, 8-cycle, air-cooled engine. It is now part of the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska.“ Congratulations Chris on your second win! The T-shirt will be on it’s way. See you all next week with another quiz. (Thanks to Malcolm Jeal who found a description of the Hay & Hotchkiss in a rare copy of ‘The Horseless Age’ and also thanks to “Banjo Bob” Apalsch for the photos)