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"Norfolk's First Automobile, 1907. The late Colonel T. R. Atkinson at the helm of his four-cylinder Ford, one of Henry's first products, and the only car in existence in this vicinity at that time.  The photo was taken on the occasion of Hon. Sydney Fisher's visit to the Norfolk County Fair in 1907.  Included in the group are: 
(left to right) E. C. Carpenter, H. B. Donly, Colonel Atkinson, Hon. Sydney Fisher, 
Wm. Sutton
, H. H. Groff, Elias Boughner, and John Murphy."
 

Source: Simcoe and Norfolk County published by Pearce Publishing, 1924
(Out of print. Copy available for inspection at Norfolk Historical Society.)
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