"The Thing"

"The Thing" (HM2HUG)

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N 42° 53.795', W 82° 45.848'

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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 and Son machine shop here in Memphis. It ran about five hundred 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.
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HM NumberHM2HUG
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Year Placed1981
Placed ByMichigan History Division, Department of State
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Sunday, June 16th, 2019 at 8:03am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17T E 355965 N 4750840
Decimal Degrees42.89658333, -82.76413333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 53.795', W 82° 45.848'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 53' 47.7" N, 82° 45' 50.88" W
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