People kept breaking the 8 mph speed limit law in St. Louis, so on this date in 1905, the police department purchased a new car for chases. Dubbed “Skidoodle Wagon Number 2,” it could travel 50 mph.
Photo credit: Detroit Publishing Co., Publisher. Northern Manufacturing Company car. , None. [Between 1900 and 1905] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016812159/.
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