This date in History....

casecollectorsc

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Location
E central SD.
100 years ago...1915....in Watertown, SD.
George W Wood, representative of the Case automobile racing team is in the city today with a proposition to bring the Case racing cars to
Watertown for an exhibition contest sometime next week. He asks that the city furnish a suitable track, and all other expense will be stood
by the company. The old race track south of town was considered, but the road leading to it has not been used and considerable grading would
need to be done. It is not likely the Case team will be able to exhibit because of this fact.

Strange but true.
 
Steve,

Thanks for that piece of Case car history. I have been fortunate to have found the Case car dealers in this county through newspaper archives. It is plain to see that you couldn't make enough money selling one or two expensive (but well engineered) cars a year. In 1912 the local dealer was a livery stable who sold 3 cars and didn't pay for them. JI Case TM Co. sued them and won land in regard to payment. In 1915 the Ford dealer also took on Case cars and that lasted 1 year. The last mention of a Case car is in 1921 when a garage burned with a new Case car in it. Haven't been able to find out where it was purchased from. Case, like many other companies, couldn't make a go of car manufacturing. Too bad they couldn't have lasted longer. Don
 

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