The Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum

This Pierce-Arrow Town Car sold for $6,500 in 1919, very expensive for its time.

The Boyce MotoMeter, patented in 1912, was used in automobiles to give drivers information about engine temperature while operating the car. Motometers, at first aftermarket devices, were later standard or optional. They became unnecessary when dash-mounted temperature gauges appeared around 1930. The museum has a large collection of automobile mascots and motometers on display.

Distinctive fender lamps were designed by Herbert Dawley, who was recruited by Charles Clifton after entering a public design contest.

Gasoline is raised to the roof level to be gravity fed through glass and copper ornaments Wright called bells.

The station is situated inside a 30,000 square foot atrium addition that features a high ceiling to accommodate the totems that support a neon TYDOL sign in a Frank Lloyd Wright script.

Wright’s design called for two 37 foot copper-clad poles he called totems, as seen in one of his original drawings found in the Taliesin West archives.

This 1909 Thomas Flyer 6-40 Flyabout sold for $3,750 in 1909.

Headlights were powered by gas.

The 1904 Arrow was one of the first G.N. Pierce vehicles to have the engine mounted on the front rather than underneath the car.

The 1904 Arrow is powered by a 15 HP Two Cylinder T-head engine with three speed manual transmission and a bore and stroke of 3-15/16 x 4 ¾.

Only 125 were ever produced and only two remain in existence today.

The 1902 Stanhope electric carriage weighed 1,800 pounds and featured wood wheels, hard rubber tires, and a Victoria top.

The carriage had a top speed of 14 mph and could get up to 50 miles per battery charge under normal, level conditions.

Wealthy families in Buffalo in the early 1900s might have two vehicles; a gasoline auto for the men and an electric for the women.

Jell-O salesmen visited Ellis Island, where they greeted newly arrived immigrants with Jell-O samples.

The Wagon has original paint and gold leaf lettering.

Jell-O originally called itself ‘powdered ice cream’ and the gelatin was made of ground up animal bones!

Susan B. Anthony once said, “I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.”

In the 1890s, women competed alongside men in “Century Runs,” or 100 mile bike races, an impactful symbol of women’s suffrage.