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          Duryea Motor Wagon Company

          Defunct American automobile manufacturer

          The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, established in 1895 in Springfield, Massachusetts, was the first American firm to build gasoline automobiles.

          History

          Founded by Charles Duryea and his brother Frank, the company built the Duryea Motor Wagon, a one-cylinder four-horsepower car,[1] first demonstrated on September 21, 1893, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Taylor Street in Metro Center.

          It is considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S.

          In 1895, a second Duryea (built in 1894),[2] driven by Frank, won the Chicago Times Herald race in Chicago on a snowy Thanksgiving day.

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          5. He traveled 54 miles (87 km) at an average speed of 7.5 mph (12 km/h), marking the first U.S. auto race in which any entrants finished. That same year, the brothers began commercial production, with thirteen cars sold by the end of 1896.

          Their first ten production vehicles were