Bates originally challenged Curtiss and the Wright Brothers to an airplane race in Florida.
When that failed, he settled for an automobile race. The automobile won.
it has a 12hp motor, and Bates was building airplanes in Chicago until about 1912 when he sold out to the Edward Heath company and that he went into business again on his own during World War I.
here he was in 1906
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