a farmer in Marietta, Ohio, had this Holt 5-Ton crawler tractor he sold to a collector, and it turns out to have been subcontracted to Maxwell to build. It took the collector 4 years just to source the correct armor plating

the Holt 5-Ton was in high demand in World War I for towing artillery. The Holt Manufacturing Company, which later merged in 1925 with the C.L. Best Tractor Company to form the Caterpillar Tractor Co., couldn’t keep up with the demand.

So Holt contracted with the Maxwell Motor Company and other manufacturers to help meet supply for the “Artillery Tractor 5-ton Model 1917,” as Holt called them.

Before all the orders could be filled, however, the war ended November 11, 1918. Holt, Maxwell and the other manufacturers were left with surplus tractors that never made it “Over There,” but some remained in service through the 1920s and others were converted to civilian use on the farm.

Bowers got interested in restoring antique equipment from his father, Howard Bowers Sr., who started the family’s heavy hauling business in 1948 in Wintersville.

At 84, Bowers Jr. is retired, but the fourth generation of the family has joined Howard L. Bowers Contracting. And Bowers still goes in every day to his own special spot on the company’s property where his father used to work on old machines.

“I got what they call a ‘toy shop’ where I work on these antique tractors,” he says. “This is my ‘golf course’ over here in my own shop.”

https://www.equipmentworld.com/vintage-equipment/article/15825717/1918-holt-5ton-artillery-tractor-built-for-wwi-rescued-restored

Top 50 most memorable hot rods and street cars of all time that have made an appearance in a television series, or a memorable television episode. No. 41: Jack Benny’s 1923 The Good Maxwell Tourer

At the turn of the century, industrialist Ben Briscoe hired Jon Maxwell to build a new car. 

Jon had worked with Ransom Olds on the famed “curved dash Oldsmobile,” the first car made on an assembly line. A 1910 auto history credited Maxwell with “the unit power plant, multiple-disc clutch, and thermo-syphon system of cooling with the radiator in front of the engine;”

 The original 1904 Maxwell was popular, and Briscoe built numerous factories to make it before going on a buying spree which bankrupted the company. Walter Flanders bought the remains, swapped out the aging Maxwell cars for his own (renaming the Flanders to the Maxwell). After Flanders retired, Maxwell again started to fail, and Walter Chrysler stepped in with expert engineers to fix the car’s troubles and to create a car in his own name—the Chrysler. After 1925, the Maxwell was upgraded and sold as the “Chrysler Four” (the original 1924 Chrysler was a six) then upgraded again to be the “new” Plymouth.

In a skit, Rochester called Jack at 11:05 in the morning to tell him the Maxwell had been stolen. Jack asked when it happened, and Rochester said it was taken at 10:30 AM and he let the police know at 10:50 AM. When Jack then asked Rochester why it took so long for him to call the police, Rochester replied that he called them when he stopped laughing. 

Because of Jack Benny and Harry Conn, not to mention Mel Blanc, many Americans know Maxwell—if they know it at all—solely as the dilapidated, obsolete, sad car of Jack Benny.

 Jack Benny donated his Maxwell for the scrap metal drive in support of the war effort, Oct 18 1942  

https://www.streetmusclemag.com/news/top-50-tv-cars-of-all-time-no-41-jack-bennys-1923-maxwell/

https://thisdaybenny.com/2021/07/02/the-maxwell-for-scrap/

https://www.motales.com/chrysler-corp/people/jack-benny-maxwell.php

https://www.reddit.com/r/RareHistoricalPhotos/comments/1bwydkf/jack_benny_and_eddie_anderson_toying_with_a/#lightbox

way back in 1950, 20th Century Fox had 131 cars in their collection

These cars were used in the Six Flags over Mid America in 1974. (last week I posted about amusement park trains, now, amusement park cars)

All three of these models of Amusement Ride vehicles were manufactured and built by Arrow Development Company of Mt. View, California. 

Arrow Development had four original founders in 1946, all very talented men who turned a small fabrication shop into a bustling amusement ride manufacturer and who also secured the contract for most of the original rides for Walt Disney in 1955 and designed and many innovated ride systems over the years.

The smaller Model T and Maxwell cars were a big seller for Arrow and installed all over country and also overseas. The larger cars as in the original posted photo were Cadillac's. 

 One of the founders was Edgar Morgan, who was a antique car collector and a member of our Santa Cruz Region Horseless Carriage Club. An amazing, talented individual with a passion for Antique automobiles.

There were two at Hershey last year, a Maxwell and a Model T Ford.

This photo shows in front of the Cadillac, Arrow Development's Limited Guide System rail.

 This innovated design of the steering system allowed the driver to be able to "Steer" the vehicle around the track, yet the center guide rail down the center of the track would "limit" the steering so the vehicle was unable to leave the track and would also follow the track if not steered. 

The wide concrete portions as seen in the original text were used in the loading stations to keep the vehicle in the correct location for loading and unloading of passengers next to the platform.

these "Merry Oldies"  were at Geauga Lake Park in 1979,  Kings Dominion in Doswell Va still uses them, as does Kentucky Kingdom, and Kings Island in Cincinnati. There is still one at Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster, PA, and Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky Ohio has a ride called Cadillac Cars:

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=457084003018964&set=gm.10166471325890548&idorvanity=17532215547

Jack Benny, Clark Gable, Rochester, Terry Thomas, and the Maxwell

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-475#post-13530090

driving across country was a thing ordinary underpowered skinny wheeled cars could do 100 years ago, Dolph Andrus's many problems with his Maxwell near Tuba City were photographed for posterity

of course, there were a lot of issues that came up occasionally that required problem solving

This Maxwell had 3 guys, a pick, and a shovel. And someone else using a camera to take this photo.

H. Stanley Hinnricks, Dr. William H. Hopkins, and Dolph Andrus digging out the wheels of Maxwell automobile. Unidentified photographer, visible shadow.


https://digital.lib.usu.edu/digital/collection/monumental/id/161

same car, different stuck situation

https://digital.lib.usu.edu/digital/collection/monumental/id/87

https://digital.lib.usu.edu/digital/collection/monumental/search/page/8

the cover of the February 19, 1914 issue of Motor Age.

https://tmblr.co/Zqou6t2IeS5bV

Jack McKay in his Maxwell

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39411748@N06/6876841369/

Coles Phillips, 1880-1927

https://www.facebook.com/marc.tudeau?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf

http://www.americanartarchives.com/phillips,c2.htm

Cole Phillips made a promise to himself when graduating college that he would make a $100,000 before the age of 35, and he did it.

Phillips had a black-and-white illustration published in Life magazine in 1907. Pleased with the results, the publisher soon had him producing full-color front covers to spur newsstand sales. So successful was his clean and eye-catching style that he produced more than 50 Life covers over a span of four years.

The "fade-away" girl was Phillips' trademark illustrative technique which launched him into the national spotlight. It featured portions of the main subject (the model's dress, or the car she occupied) that precisely matched-and so disappeared into-the background color of the image. His fame also grew, in part, due to his insistence that his name appear in his illustration, not a common practice at the time. His Life covers were a major hit with readers; other publications and advertisers took note.

Publishing powerhouse Good Housekeeping next tapped Phillips to create cover illustrations for an astonishing five-year run. Between GH's monthly deadlines, Phillips produced hundreds of images for other magazine publishers and advertisers, ranging from watches, pens, silverware, fabrics and hosiery to Atwater Kent radios and Vitralite paints. His automotive clients included Motor magazine; suppliers, such as Electric Auto-Lite Corp. and manufacturers Maxwell and Flanders. Willys-Overland was a major account for Phillips; many striking advertisements can be found in period magazines. C. Coles Phillips died in 1927 at the age of 47.

https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hmn/2006/06/Coles-Phillips/1280600.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/carlylehold/albums/72157649991152001

Eddie Rickenbacker and the Maxwell he raced in the 1915 San Francisco Gran Prix

Found on https://www.facebook.com/isabelle.bracquemond.7 via https://www.facebook.com/indianaracingmemorialassociation