1910 Rambler Touring Model 53
edited by David Barth, 10 January 2009.
Courtesy The Forney Museum of Transportation at 4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver,
Colorado. Photos were taken in January 2009.
This is a 4-cylinder car with 34 hp.
Rambler was the name of the bicycle produced in Chicago prior to the turn of the century by Thomas Jeffery and R.
Phillip Gormully, who operated the second largest bicycle factory in the United States during the 1890's.
Of the two men, Thomas Jeffery was the most interested in entering the automotive business. In 1897 Thomas built his
first single-cylinder-engine gasoline car. In 1898 he built two cars that were more refined.
Little attention was paid to Jeffery's cars until he showed them in automobile shows in Chicago and New York in 1900.
The cars featured a front-mounted engine and left-hand drive.
When the cars entered production, Thomas Jeffery placed the engine under the seat and changed the steering wheel to a
tiller on the right side of the car. His concern was that advanced features would not be popular among car
buyers.
In 1914 Rambler changed its name to Jeffery. It was built in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
