Bridgeport’s Locomobile and the 1903 Endurance Run

Robert Selkowitz, Director of Historic Automobile Endurance Run Enterprises, LLC, discusses the famed Locomobile, a car manufactured in Bridgeport, and an 800 mile, four state, 36 car endurance run taken by Locomobile inventor Andrew Riker and wife, Edith, in the Fall of 1903 with the very first gas engine Locomobile.

Eleanor and Andrew Riker on the road in their Locomobile during the 1903 Endurance Race.

“It is glorious, I think, to fly through the country day or night, at railroad speed, over all sorts of roads!”
Eleanor Riker