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  1. Good Morning #Canada
    Today we celebrate a little known Canadian inventor who created "The Steam Pleasure Palace". Almost 3 decades before Henry Ford, Quebecer Henry Seth Taylor built Canada's first self-propelled car in the 1860s. Nicknamed The Steam Pleasure Palace, the steam powered car had a single seat and could reach speeds of up to 24 kilometers per hour.

    #CanadaIsAwesome #AutoHistory
    ingeniumcanada.org/channel/inn

  2. This slide probably from around the 1960s shows the southeast corner of Warren and Oakman in #Dearborn. The former Shell gas station at the corner was at 12845 Warren.
    #autohistory