This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Oldfield Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1565 Message Board Post: SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. Dec. 17, 1931. "Pioneer Auto Owner Describes First Car".--W.G. Oldfield, whose address is Shenandoah but who lives in Fremont county, was in Sidney Tuesday making application for his driver's license, and stated that he drove one of the first "high-wheelers" to make appearance in Fremont county, back some tweny or twenty-five years ago. He never did wear it out but junked it some years ago, which act he is now sorry for, as the vehicle would be worth considerable as a curio. The machine was a "Schatz", he stated, and cost him about as much as one of the present day models of any of the more popular makes. The old machine was powered by a two -cyclinder engine under the seat, with chain drive to the rear axle. The springs ran the entire width of the car, and over rough roads the body rose and fell like troubled seas, while the vibration of the engine rocked it like a cradle. Between the conflicting motions, a driver had all he wanted to do to stay in the vehicle and control its ferocious speed of seven or eight miles an hour--more or less.