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“I was a horseless carriage until about 18 months ago, and I definitely saw the writing on the wall,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
A great many investors backed the wrong horseless carriages around a century ago and lost their money.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025
Then Frederick decided they should get into the horseless carriage business themselves.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2023
The kooky inventor of a horseless carriage rivals a banker’s son for a liveryman’s daughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2020
We had to sell some of our land — we had land then — to pay for his weapons, armor, a horse, father came back home a year ago, half-starved, horseless, on one leg.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
