Before the widespread use of sheetmetal, automotive pioneers used wood for vehicle frames, wheels, bodies, and much more.
in Newport, Rhode Island, is celebrating the early days of the auto industry, when a plentiful raw material—wood—was crafted into wheels, frames, steering wheels, trim, and even exterior surfaces.
Besides the fabulous cars and boats, there’s also an ornate, wooden horse-drawn coach in the display. It was built in 1892 for a Vanderbilt relative, back when coach builders hadn’t yet moved on to horseless carriages.De Muzio has an appreciation from wood. Before he joined the museum in 2014, he worked for 25 years at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, including a stretch as senior conservator of furniture and woodwork.
As beautiful as the polished exterior finishes are, De Muzio emphasized wood in cars wasn’t just for decoration. Underneath the high-gloss finishes or mother-of-pearl inlays, it was also common in the past to use wood to build the internal structure supporting sheetmetal body panels, de Muzio said.Rolls-Royce
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