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Period Images - 1909 Traveler
1910 Traveler

The '09 Traveler was the first car to get the 40" tires.
It had a 122" wheelbase, extended 12" from the roadster to accommodate the second seat.

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1909 Advance Announcement

  Antique Automobile, 1980 V44 #5
Sep. 1908 2500-mile demonstration tour

image source unrecorded
7/31/09 Rocklidge Gilmer Co, Salt Lake dlr

  Utah State Historical Society
Actor George Fuller Golden and Robert Drach

Chicago Inter Ocean, Sep 19, 1909

Detroit Public Library
Center Square, Allentown, PA

  Wikimedia Commons

  Wikimedia Commons

Detroit Public Library

W. C. Fields

  Free Library of Philadelphia

Peter Helck Collection
1909 New Jersey license plate

  Detroit Public Library

Alan Woolf Collection
Postcard dated 1911

personal collection

1909 Travelers with accessory windshields

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Postcard mailed from Venice, CA, Apr 8, 1910

image source eBay seller
Thanks to Tim Martin
Heavily customized -
back seat replaced with 1908-style trunk, roadster top, windshield, repositioned battery box

image source eBay seller

L J Gilmer, Salt Lake City American dealer, transporting Mr Irwin's glider in February 1909.
Appears to be the same car used later in the Dolly Dimples promotion.


  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society


Dolly Dimples promotion, Salt Lake City, September 1909

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Historical Society

  Utah State Hostorical Society



Existing cars
      1909 Traveler