Monday Morning White's (UPDATE)

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Update by Kit Foster on the licence plates:"In the early years of our registration systems, there was no reciprocity between states. In order for a car to operate in a state that required registration (and they adopted registrations at different times), you had to have plates from THAT state. Plates from your home state weren't enough. So motorists who lived near a state border and needed to cross it had to register in both their own state and the neighboring one. Thus many Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) residents also registered their cars in New Jersey, to be able to cross into Camden or Trenton, and vice versa. In the Washington, DC area it was common to see cars with three plates: Maryland, DC and Virginia." (edit.: now who will produce a three plated car?)
EARLIER: Jim Merrick - archivist of the Stanley Museum - writes: "If the gentleman standing before the two White steamers is wearing his duster like a lab coat, he has good reason to - he's identified as renowned inventor Thomas Alva Edison, the "Wizard of Menlo Park." In automotive history, Edison is better known for his attempts to perfect storage batteries for use in electric vehicles, and not for steamers like the two Whites shown here. I came across this interesting vintage photo from 1906 (scan attached) of Thomas Edison and two White steamers in " Harper's Weekly " I:2581, p.809 (June 9, 1906). Edison is standing between the two cars; the man at the wheel of the White on the left (bearing both Penn. and NJ plates) is Edison's son, Charles - the car on the right holds Edison's two laboratory assistants. The location was the chain bridge leaving Washington, DC, for Leesburg, Va. The description with the photo is..... ---> see Read More (photo from Harpers Weekly 1906, collection, Stanley Museum)

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