Winton Motor Carriage Company | From Bikes to Diesel Trains to Forgotten 

You're very welcome, and thanks for leaving the comment! When we look back at the early auto years, there were dozens if not hundreds of makes that produced a few cars here and there and faded away. I've not heard of most of them. :) But Winton was an expensive, luxury brand and at one time the top selling manufacturer in the US. With innovations like the steering wheel, and the first cross-country drive, and his racing history, and so much more. Yet I'd never heard of them until I was researching Packard. After I learned more, it's a darn shame his fame hasn't carried on.

@@AllCarswithJon "to the vicror goes the spoils." History is written by the winners, and Rockefeller, but thst story is for a different documentary content channel. Kind of makes you wonder how many other innovators through human history, or to box it up American history never got the recognition they deserved. Most famously is Nikola Tesla. Money talks and just from watching your channel there were several lesser known automobile manufacturers swallowed up by the powerful two along the way. Although, the dodge brothers story is very interested. Similar start in bicycles, alap had ties with Ford, the name is still here but has been passed around like a suoerbowl football. Great story though. Might want to do a video on them if you haven't already. Thanks again, you've made a fan out of me. Funny story I was watching tge Chrysler LHS video when this dropped. I hated there suspension and they were notorious for steering rack problems, I had to change one out but once you got in it man they got that spacious interior right. Have a good one. See ya in the next videos comments 😆

I'd never heard of him before I did the Packard video. When I found out he'd bought a Winton I just assumed that was one of those tiny, short lived brands and basically waved it off. But it nagged at me and I started looking into it and found the story to be compelling. A major influence in early US autos, as much as Oldsmobile, but just kind of forgotten in history.

@@AllCarswithJonYeah, I didn’t realize how huge a company Winton was back then. And it’s cool to think their spiritual successor is in the heavy duty diesel division of GM.

How cool! Thanks for the comment!

I don't think much would have changed, at least for Winton. He continued with stodgy and very expensive cars, so if it wasn't Henry revolutionizing price and assembly lines, it would have been someone else like Ransom Olds or the Dodge Brothers.

Thank you very much!

Thanks for watching!

So cool. When I was young I read a few RD stories....great narration/great short story telling.

Cool! I haven't watched one of his videos in a long time, so it'll be cool to check one out and compare!

I only touched on the EMD years. As an auto history, I didn't want to wander into those weeds too deeply. :)

Glad you enjoyed it

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I appreciate that!

Thanks!

If I had any animation skillz I'd totally do a video with that. :)

Thanks. Hope you enjoyed it!

lol. Sometimes the internet can be useful. Moderation is the watchword. Though for car enthusiasts, Winton is well known due to patent fight issue with Ford and Selden and the "go build your own car" challenge to Packard.

There were hundreds of different car manufacturers in the United States some of them lasted a few years and there's some history about them some of them built one or two cars and cease to exist