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via the auxiliary shaft, with the drive shaft turning in a counter- 

 clockwise direction as viewed from the front. 



A shaft for a starting crank extends forward from the crank- 

 shaft and passes through a space provided between the radiator 

 tubes. 



Brake drums, probably of cast iron, are attached to the rear wheels. 

 Pushing the long clutch lever forward to the limit of its travel con- 

 tracts external bands on the drums. Pulling the lever back releases 

 these bands and engages the clutch in the flywheel. Internal shoes 

 within the drums are expanded by depressing a pedal by the driver's 

 left foot. 



A low wooden body, the sides sheathed with sheet aluminum, is fitted 

 to the frame. A single wooden seat is secured to wooden planking on 

 the right. A cylindrical gasoline tank containing a shut-off valve and 

 a filler opening is located behind the seat. A rectangular sheet alum- 

 inum cover is attached to the body behind the tank, with another at 

 the front of the car, the latter hinged to open for inspection. Another 

 hinged aluminum cover was formerly mounted directly behind it but 

 is no longer in place. 



Like its predecessor, this racing car was a machine designed for 

 high-speed performance. Contemporary photographs reveal that the 

 car's design underwent slight changes, as an additional lever once 

 existed to the right of the driver's seat, and the intake manifold with 

 its two carburetors was once a single casting, rather than consisting 

 of two pieces as now. 



WINTON GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE, 1903 



U. S. N. M. No. 312831 ; original ; gift of H. Nelson Jackson in 1944 ; photograph 

 No. 38580-A ; plate 8, 6. 



The first trip from coast to coast across the continent in an auto- 

 mobile was made in 1903 by H. Nelson Jackson driving this Winton, 

 assisted by Sewall K. Crocker. The trip, from San Francisco, Calif., 

 to New York City, occupied 63 days, only 44 of which were used in 

 traveling. The car, purchased secondhand in San Francisco by 

 Jackson, left that city on May 23 and reached New York on July 26 

 after having traveled over roads and trails that would be impassable 

 for the modern, low-slung, passenger automobile. 



The water-cooled engine is of the 2-cylinder, 4-cycle, horizontal- 

 opposed type located near the center of the frame, beneath the left 

 seat. The bore is 514 inches, and the stroke 6 inches. The flywheel 

 is located in about the center of the vehicle; it rotated in a vertical 

 plane parallel with the sides of the frame. It is 24 inches in diameter, 

 with a rim 21/^ inches thick and 3i/^ inches wide. The engine is sus- 

 pended in place from two chassis cross members. 



