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The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, established in 1895, was the first American firm to build gasoline automobiles.
Founded by Charles Duryea and his brother J. Frank Duryea, they operated the one-cylinder "Buggyaut" on September 21, 1893 at Springfield, Massachusetts. It is considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S. That same year, a Duryea driven by J. Frank Duryea won the Chicago Times-Herald race in Chicago on a snowy Thanksgiving day. He travelled 54 miles at an average 7.5 mph, marking the first U.S. auto race in which any entrants finished.
An early Duryea advertisement explains to incredulous readers that the vehicle "actually operated under its own propulsion."
The brothers went their separate ways by the end of the century. J. Frank helped produce the Stevens-Duryea while Charles produced Duryea vehicles as late as 1917.
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