1918
Milburn Electric Car
Carriage House
Few can
resist taking a closer look at the 1918 Milburn Electric
Coupe, Model 27, now on view in the Carriage House at the
Northern Indiana Center for History, 808 West Washington.
As a maker of
horse-drawn vehicles, the Milburn Wagon Company was
established in Mishawaka, Indiana, in 1848 by George
Milburn, father-in-law of Clement Studebaker. In 1873,
the company moved to Toledo, Ohio, where they began to
manufacture automobiles. The company manufactured over
7,000 cars during the eight years the auto was in
production.
Among the
more popular of American electric cars, Milburns were used
by President Woodrow Wilson's secret service men.
