CREDITS:
Elma Review & Mike Kelly: Local Lore.
Webmaster: Archive.org uploads, old postcard & ad.
Town Historian: barn pic.
EHS Research Library & Bflo Evening News: obit.
Lib. Congress: Alaska pic.
Multiple websites: map.
TALES OF OLD ELMA
FURTHER READING & BACKGROUND
THE WORLD'S MOST SIGNIFICANT RACE CAR
WAS IN ELMA FOR 25 YEARS
Further reading is on this page. Click to enlarge.
1908 booklet on Race by Thomas Company:
https://archive.org/details/1908-ny-to-paris-race-in-thomas-flyer
Website of Jeff Mahl, great-grandson of George Schuster, hero driver and mechanic of 1908 Race:
1906 Thomas Model 31 catalog, which was similar to the Flyer Model 35 race car of 1907:
https://archive.org/details/1906thomas31automobilebuffalony
George Schuster on "What's My Line?" TV show:
1918-07-20 E&P - CA Finnegan bio-story.pdf
1908 NY To Paris Race - books & DVD.pdf
Below is a January 1907 ad for a 60 horsepower Thomas Flyer, the same model used for the NY To Paris Race in 1908.
MORE GOOD STUFF:
Link to 1963 Race Article by George Schuster, hero driver & mechanic:
https://archive.org/details/1963-01-rd-longest-auto-race-gs
PDF for downloading -- easier to read: