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English: A press photo showing Mayor William P. Yoerg of Holyoke (center-left), a longtime garage owner and tire salesman, presenting an engraved award plate to Charles Duryea, engineer of the first-ever working American gasoline-powered car, for his role in starting the American tire industry. Duryea's 1894 prototypes made use of pneumatic tires produced by the Hartford Tire Company. The ceremony took place in Springfield, Massachusetts on April 14, 1937. A typewritten and date-stamped caption on the back reads-

From,
Springfield–Duryea Anniversary Committee,
Springfield, Mass.

AUTO INDUSTRY HONORS DURYEA
Mayor William P. Yoerg of Holyoke, Mass. presents Charles E. Duryea with the United States Rubber Company Trophy at the forty-fifth anniversary luncheon in Springfield, Mass. The luncheon was a salute to Springfield as the birthplace of the motor industry and honored Mr. Duryea as the inventor of the first successful automobile in America, and as the first automobile manufacturer to use pneumatic automobile tires (1894). The tires were made by the old Hartford Rubber Works, now a part of the United States Rubber Company. L. to r. – J. Frank Tucker, Chairman, Springfield Public Affairs Committee; Mayor Yoerg; Mr. Duryea; and (seated extreme right) Alfred P. Reeves, vice president, Automobile Manufacturers Association of America.
Apr 29 1937

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Source Press photo from the Springfield-Duryea Anniversary Committee
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