Results tagged “Fred Rosenmiller” from York Town Square

This 1917 Pullman light delivery truck, owned by the Laugerman family and restored by Paul Vaughn, won Best in Class among York-built cars in a past Concours D'Elegance, an annual vintage car show that serves as a York County Heritage Trust fundraiser. Background posts: Mechanical museum intrigues newcomers, Where do you go for one-stop shopping on York County history? and When a Pullman automobile became a seesaw.

Was York the "Detroit of the East" or did it just miss becoming "Detroit of America"?

That prospect was raised again in the program for the annual high-end car show Concours D'Elegance held just this past weekend at York College.

The program "Ford and fins" reprinted a short item about York auto industry penned by William H. Shank, the late York resident and noted transportation writer.

"Under slightly different circumstances, York might have become 'Detroit' of America," Shank wrote... .

Fred Rosenmiller is donating this 1917 Bell Motor Car, made in the 200 block of North George Street in York, Pa., to the York County Heritage Trust. He declined, with a smile, to place a value on the car other than to say it's worth more than it originally cost. The Heritage Trust regularly receives donations from the community. Background posts: Digging Coulsontown: 'This is not Indiana Jones', Did you know this about York/Adams history?, How to start researching York/Adams history, artifacts.

Fred Rosenmiller's generous donation of scores of vintage bottles made the headlines recently.

Rosenmiller is obviously an accomplished and savvy collector.

But not everyone is so in the know.

What are some suggestions about donating historical artifacts of value?

Fred Rosenmiller was publisher of the undated (probably late 1990s book) "Bottles & Jugs, With a York, Pennsylvania Pespective." Rosenmiller recently said he would donate scores of bottles from his collection to the York County Heritage Trust. (See photo below.) Background posts: Good stuff found in 'Codorus Valley Chronicles', Where do you go for one-stop shopping on York County history, Hart-Krafts: 'Most of the trucks were used and abused'.

Fred Rosenmiller, whose massive and valuable bottle collection will go to the York County Heritage Trust, gave away some of his collecting secrets in his book "Bottles and Jugs."

One route is to dig... .

This rare Hart-Kraft light delivery truck was one of thousands of vehicles built in York in the first quarter of the 20th century. The truck will be unveiled at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Agricultural and Industrial Museum, 217 W. Princess St., York. To see a photo of the truck before restoration, see below. Background posts: When an automobile became a seesaw and Camp Security memories tucked inside memoirs.

A relic of York County's automotive manufacturing past will become available for all to see this weekend.

Fred Rosenmiller, the county's foremost promoter of all things historic on wheels, has donated a restored Hart-Kraft light delivery truck to the York County Heritage Trust... .