The Glidden Tours, also known as the National Reliability Runs, were promotional events held during the automotive Brass Era by the American Automobile...

Look up Glidden or glidden in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glidden may refer to: Glidden, Saskatchewan, a hamlet Glidden, Iowa, a city Glidden Township...

Charles Jasper Glidden (August 29, 1857 – September 11, 1927) was an American telephone pioneer, financier and supporter of the automobile in the United...

CEO Stewart-Warner Corporation (Oct 24, 1963) Charles Jasper Glidden and Glidden Tour Retrieved Mar. 19, 2009. Cooper Engines, including information...

the 1909 Glidden Tour 1909 Moline Model K on the Glidden Tour 1909 Team of Moline Model K's on the Glidden Tour Story of the 1909 Glidden Tour cover by...

made automobiles, crafted by Charles Duryea, and helped found the Glidden Auto Tours, an automotive distance drive and competition used to promote a national...

2,340 miles. Glidden Tour In 1909, two Brush Runabouts participated in the Glidden Tour. Neither Brush successfully completed the tour. Abernathy Boys...

most successful product. The solidly built, four-cylinder car won the Glidden Tour in 1905, an endurance run to determine and celebrate the most reliable...

while demonstrating the Stewart speedometer in a Packard during the 1907 Glidden Tour #. Stewart acquired Clarks' share of the company. Due to the need for...

by the Chalmers Detroit was the Indiana Cup, and another was the 1910 Glidden tour, where a Model 30 car achieved victory. These early Chalmers cars, particularly...

and limousine priced from $1,890 to $3,090 Westcotts competed in the Glidden Tour of 1910 from Cincinnati to Chicago via Dallas and the first Indy 500...

Indian motorcycle 3 hp Twin 20:59.2 sec July 17/18. Event held during Glidden Tour 1923 Ralph Mulford Chandler 17:00.0 sec 1928 "Cannonball" Baker Franklin...

ruthlessness. Rather gentler (and more akin to modern rallying) was the Glidden Tour, run by the American Automobile Association between 1902 and 1913, which...

publicity at the same time when a prototype car was entered in the 1906 Glidden Tour, only to drop out on the first day due to mechanical failure. Having...

to $14,643 in 2023. Advertisements claimed to be the "winner of the Glidden Tour", due to all 3 of the participating Metz cars receiving a perfect score...

of the finish. This is the first photographic record of a checkered flag finish, which had been introduced earlier that same year at the Glidden Tour....

Sarah Glidden (born in 1980) is an American cartoonist known for her nonfiction comics and graphic novels. Glidden was born in Massachusetts, to a family...

positive effect the annual AAA National Reliability Tour, more commonly known as the Glidden Tour, was having on the durability and perceptions of fuel-powered...

Three Continentals participated in the 1907 Glidden Tour, C.S. Johnson among them. He did not finish the tour as he was arrested for speeding and the collision...

was the Glidden Tour, a brain child of Colonel Jasper Glidden, intended to popularize the auto while proving its reliability on a strenuous tour of several...

paid by Mr. Marmon to the study of four subjects motor car racing, the Glidden Tour, the industry in general and the rules governing contests. "I believe...

first car to cross the Canadian Rockies: Mr and Mrs Charles Glidden, sponsors of the Glidden Tours, covered 3,536 miles (5,691 km) from Boston to Vancouver...

Dual exhaust pipes and mufflers were used. The company entered both the Glidden Tour and Indianapolis 500 in 1912. Financial difficulties were solved in 1913...

Warner Auto-Meter Warner Auto-Meter car during the 1908 Glidden Tour via the Detroit Public Library Man painting Warner Auto-Meter billboard on truck during...

Glidden Doman (January 28, 1921 – June 6, 2016) was an American aeronautical engineer and pioneer in helicopters and modern wind turbines. He founded...

a 19-mile round trip. Parmelee worked as a mechanic for a car on the Glidden tour, an annual road rally from the south to New York City, with Parmelee's...

Houston area (Houston, West Belt, East Belt, Beaumont, Harrisburg and Glidden Subdivisions), where both UP and BNSF (the latter of which operates in...

announcement from the American Automobile Association that the annual Glidden Tour would pass through Iowa. Governor Carroll arranged for farmers who lived...

"Subterraneans" (MGM) for Andre Previn "America" (TV special) for Gerry Fried "Glidden Tour" (documentary) for Win Stracke "A Time Out of War" 1952, Academy Award...

trademark), built a reputation as builders of superb touring cars. By 1910, they had completed three Glidden tours with a perfect score and reach 1,000 annual...