Thursday, July 30, 2009

First Motor Vehicle Sales Advertisement

The Winton Motor Carriage Co. is believed to have run this as the first automotive advertising in print urging consumers to "dispense with a horse." When? July 30, 1898 - 111 years ago today. Where? In Scientific American. Winton stopped producing cars in 1924 and was bought by GM in 1930.

[Source: Wired]

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