"The Thing"
Posted by: 
jbrennan
N 42° 53.799 W 082° 45.838
17T E 355979 N 4750847
"The Thing" Boardman Road at east village limits
Waymark Code: WMCCJ
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2006
Views: 37
Thomas Clegg (1863~1939) and his English-born father, John, built "The Thing," the first recorded self-propelled vehicle in Michigan (and perhaps the country) in 1884~85. The Thing, driven by a single cylinder steam engine with a tubular boiler carried in the rear, seated four. The vehicle was built in the John Clegg & Son machine shop here in Memphis. It ran about 500 miles before Clegg dismantled it and sold the engine to a creamery. The shop was razed in 1936, just a short time before Henry Ford offered to buy it for Greenfield Village.
Parking nearby?: no
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Registered Site #: L0824
Historical Date: Not listed
Historical Name: Not listed
Description: Not listed
website: Not listed
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