Other History
This page is for articles about Other History that don't easily fit into any of the other sections. For now, the titles are presented alphabetically; soon they will be re-organized into subject areas.
[NOTE: asterisks are merely editor's marks of files to be moved].
24 Hour Distance Record [1925]
1800 Horses Ahead [Betty V, 1948]
1904 British Reliability Trials
1905 New York Motor Boat Show - Motor Boat Engines at the Sportsmen's Show
1905 New York Motor Boat Show - Speedy Motor Boats for This Year's Races
1933 : The Year of the Dodge Navy
1949 Preview - 1949 Preview [Motor Boating]
1949 Preview - 1949 Preview [New York Times]
1950 Gulf Hall of Fame - Fifteen to Gulf Hall of Fame
1950 Gulf Hall of Fame - More Power to You
1964 Unlimited Hydroplane Roster
1967 Miss Budweiser Joins Museum Fleet
1969 Pride of Pay 'n Pak Speed Attempt
1975 Hydroplane Slate is Worth Record $350,000 for 10 events
2001 Unlimited Hydroplane Roster
2002 Unlimited Hydroplane Roster 1
2002 Unlimited Hydroplane Roster 2
A Brief History of Canadian Roostertails
A Brief History of the Mile Straightaway Record [1950-1979]
A Driver Tells What It's Like [1959]
A Fast Trip Down The Hudson [More on Standard, 1906]
A Lake Chelan Memory : Riding in "Slo-mo" [1994]
A Look Back and a Look Ahead [1967]
A.P. Writer "All Shook Up" Over Hydroplaning [1959]
A Paper by Clinton Crane [1905]
A Record Cross-Country Motor-Boat Trip [1909]
A Ride With Joe Fellows [1921]
A Short History of Motor Boating [1906] - Motor Boats
Aggressor and Stampede Remembered [1997]
Alexander Graham Bell and the Hydrofoils [1906-1921]
All Records Afloat Beaten by the Arrow [1902]
Amateurs vs. Professionals (1910)
An Early Boat Racing History [1906]
An International Union [1908-1927]
Analysis of the Hydroplane [1907]
Anything Goes In the Gold Cup [1957]
Arfons Gears Monster for Water Speed Record [1967]
Art Arfons and His Green Monster [1967]
Art Arfons to "Drive" on Water [1967]
Art Asbury's Own Story on Driving - At a Speed Over Water of 184 mph [1957]
As The Turbine Turns [1958 Season]
Bay City, Michigan - 1908 - The Home of the Speed Boat
Behind The Scenes With Gar Wood [1935]
Bill Muncey Defends Hydro Racing [1968]
Boat Clubs on the Ohio River [1906]
Britain Steps Ahead in the Speed-Boat Battle [1932]
Brooke I's 400-horsepower engine [1905]
Buffalo Motor Boat Club Fire [1909]
Build Slo-mo-shun IV (model) [1952]
Clinton Crane's Yachting Memories [1952]
Comments on Handicapping [1908]
Crew Chiefs : The Unsung Heroes
Danger a Part of Hydro Racing [1997]
Dean Chenoweth — 1979 Speed Record Attempt
Detroit River Gold Cup Hall of Champions 1946-2009
Developments in Fuel and Power [1909]
Developments in the Eastern Field [1920]
Developments in 1921 in The Eastern Field
Diamonds Aren't Forever [1984]
Dodge Prepares Great Racing Fleet [1933]
Driver Career Victories (1946-2001)
Eastern Development During 1923 (excerpt)
Engines of Chip II And Sparrow [1906]
English Criticism Of Familiar American Type Power Boats [1905]
Evolution of the Unlimited Lights
Expanded Schedule Announced For 1986 [humour]
Famous Old Hydro Racers Ready to Run [1997]
Famous Speedboats of the World
The Fast-Steppers : From Pioneer to Miss Pepsi
First Regatta of the Falls Cities Motorboat Association [1909]
Followup Meeting for a National Boating Association [1903]
Formation of the Motor Boat Club of America [1905]
Formation of the M.V.P.B.A. [1908]
Formation of the Pacific International Power Boat Association [1908]
Formation of the Willamette Motor Boat Club [1908]
Fred Farley's Ten Greatest Gold Cups
French Launches and Launch Engines of 1905
From Rowboats to Roostertails [1986]
From the New Yorker [1905] - Hard Indeed To Understand
Gar Wood and the Porpoises [1935]
Gold And Glory : The Final Year Of The Dragon [1965]
Gold Cup History Tidbits [1997]
Gold Cup Racers Aim at 200 Miles per Hour [1957]
Grief And Glory In This Year's Racing [1938]
Guy Lombardo's 1948 Speed Attempt
H1 Unlimited Eyes Expansion into China [2012]
H1 Unlimited Announces Organizational Changes [2019]
Harmsworth Challenge Due in '52
Harmsworth Deed of Gift [1903]
Harry Volpi's Driver Decelerator [1969]
Hawaii Kai III - The Gold Cup Champion
Hawaii Kai III : The "Pink Lady" Legacy [The "Quasi-Kai"]
Highlights of Detroit Race [1901-2005]
How Sterling Engines Are Made [1908]
How to Drive a Racing Speedboat [1936]
How To Win The Gold Cup [1959]
How Variable Rudder Control Was Installed in Slo-Mo-Shun [1950]
Hull Career Victories (1946-2001)
Hydro Past Recalled : A Preview of '62 Slate
Hydro Who's Who; Don't Get Lost [1961]
Intercontinental Challengers [1996]
International Motorboat Union [1908]
International Racing Is Not New To The Unlimiteds [2009]
Is there a future for automotive power for Unlimiteds? [2011]
It May Be England's Bluebird vs. Slo-mo-shuns On B.C. Lake ln '52
It Was Fascination, I Know [1992]
It's a Whole Lot of Fun Now [1972]
J Michael Kelly in New Zealand [2012]
Jones Building Jet-Propelled Craft [1960]
Kaiser Aims for World Speed Record and Harmsworth Trophy With New Boat [1949]
Kelowna Hydro Consortium Ready for First Race [1997]
La Rapiere II Makes A World's Record At Trouville [1906]
Launch Racing On The St. Lawrence [1905]
Let’s Revive the Step Hydroplane [1954]
Lombardo Strikes up New Gold Cup ‘Tune’ [1960]
Lombardo To Try For World Speed Mark [1949]
Madison Celebrates Championship III [2011]
Madison, Indiana: Lots of History in Madison
Malcolm Campbell Plans Attempt on Boat Record on Lake Okanagan [1948]
Maverick Blast Injures Driver [1959]
Miss Bardahl Crowds Maverick for Honors [1958]
Miss Bardahl Wins Hydro Award [1964]
Miss Madison: A 50 Year Timeline [2010]
Miss Madison, The Gold Cup Champion
Miss Thriftway Sets Speed Record [1960]
Model Power Boat Racing [1907]
More About the Standard Motor Co. [1903-22]
More on APBA Handicap Rating [1905]
More Power To You [Speed Records, 1946]
More Than a Mile a Minute : An Introduction [1992]
Motor Boat Club of America Changes [1907]
Motor Boat Racing in Europe [1935]
Motor Boating - A New Sport [1904]
Motor Boating In Canada [1906]
Motor Boating in Detroit [1907]
Motor Boating in San Francisco [1905]
Motor Boating in the Far West (Oregon) [1907]
Motor Boating On San Francisco Bay [1910]
Motor Boating On Puget Sound [1906]
Motor Boating On Puget Sound [1907]
Motor Boats On San Francisco Bay [1907]
Motor Boats on the Mississippi [1909]
Motor-Boating in the West [1904]
Motor-Boats [1904] - The New Swift High-Powered Pleasure Craft
Muncey Joins Schoenith for '70 Unlimited Tour
Muncey Runs for the Glamor [1971]
New BMBC Racing Class for 1910
New Hydro For The Western Circuit [1966]
New Hydroplanes Heavier, Strong [1967]
New Pacific Coast Boats for 1920
New Speed Marks Seen by Lombardo [1948]
New Speed Record Gar Wood's Aim [1931]
Norm Berg Builds a Pair [1979]
Notes From Up and Down the Coast [1909]
Notes From Up and Down the Coast [1910]
Oberto Reunites with Bernard [2019]
Ohio River Thunder : A Hydroplane Heritage
On the Sacramento River [1907]
One of the First Hydrofoils [1907]
Pacific Coast Racing History Associated with PMB Trophy [1951]
Plane Too Speedy for Miss America [1931]
Pontoon-Hydroplane Promises Higher Speed (1930)
Poor Turnouts for the 1905 Season
Power Boating in Buffalo [1906]
Power Boating in Toronto, 1906
Powerboat Racing on the Chesapeake [1995]
Powerboats Make Detroit Special [1976]
Presidents Cup History, 1926-1976
Presidents Cup : The Truman Years
Pressure Big Reason for Fatalities -- Muncey [1967]
Problems With the Race Handicap Rating Rules [1906]
Propriders : The First Generation
Racers Eligible for 135 And 225 Inch Classes [1935]
Racing Hydros Isn't Like Anything Else [1997]
Racing on Three Points! [1963]
Racing the Twentieth Century Limited [1925]
Recent Performances Of French Hydroplane Boats [1907]
Ron Jones and the F-16 Safety Canopy [1999]
Rossi's Boats and Trophies Lost [1946]
Rule Changes for 1904 - New Rules for Autoboats
Running the Snake River in 1910
Salton Sea, 6 - Lake Mead, 1 [1950]
Sayres Sets World Record of 160 mph [1950]
Sayres Sets World Speed Boat Mark With Slo-Mo-Shun IV
Sayres Sets Mark in Slo-mo-shun IV [1952]
Sayres Sets World Speed Boat Mark With Slo-Mo-Shun IV [1950]
Sayres’ Slo-Mo-Shun V to Begin Barnstorming Tour Through East [1953]
Sayres' Speed Feat Stirs Discussion [1952]
Sayres to Try for World Speed Record
Schafer’s Such Crust: The Most Productive Seasons
Seattle Chances for Speedboat Race Good [1950]
Seattle Boat Race on the Air [1959]
Simon Gets Gold Cup Hydro [1963]
Slo-Mo-Shun V Invades The East [1953]
Some Famous Unlimiteds of the Past
Some More Early Three-Pointers [Version 1]
Some More Early Three-Pointers [Version 2]
Speed Boat Developments From The Past Into The Future
Speed Boat Development in Europe [1935]
Speed Over Water Goes Up and Up [1940]
Spirit of Detroit Team Update [2019]
Team Porter Will Field Two Boats In 2014
Television: How Much, and How Soon? [1991]
The 1909 Racing Season at Buffalo
The 1950 Motor Boat Racing Season
The 1956 Hawaii Mile Trial Remembered
The Advent Of The Speed Launch [1903]
The Aerodynamic Boat (1930's brochure)
The Apple Cup Revisited [1983]
The Automobile And Motor-Boat Races At Nice And Monte Carlo [1904]
The Big Ones . . . around the Roostertail Circuit [1959]
The Conventional Hydroplane [1951]
The Craig-Dorwald Engine [1905]
The Development of the High-Speed Launch or Automobile Boat [1904]
The Duke of Westminster's Accident [1910]
The Engines of Dixie II, USA and Den [1908]
The Fastest Boat On the B. C. Coast [1908]
The First Motorboat Club Organized in Canada [1908]
The Florida Racing Circuit [1949]
The Future of Power-Boat Racing [1908]
The Gold Cup Class Revisited [1922-1941]
The Griffith Cup: All You Ever Needed To Know [1995]
The Growth and Trend of Power Boat Racing [1909]
The History of the Gold Cup Boats -- Part III [1946]
The King and the Motor Yacht Club [1910]
The Limits Of The Speed Launch [1903]
The Motor Boat of the Future [1906]
The Motorboats on Lake George [1909]
The Multiple Point Hydro [1951]
The Oakland Boys [Dan Arena and Danny Foster]
The Ohio River Races : A Look Back in Time [1991]
The one, and only, officially sanctioned Automotive Thunderboat Race [1987]
The Power Boat On Puget Sound [1907]
The Racing of Power Boats [1903]
The Roostertail: Historic Roostertail Sponsors The 22
The Speed Launch Express [1903]
The Speed of Motor Boats and Their Rating For Racing Purposes [1906]
The Thunder Returns to Virginia [1997]
The UR Class is Here! But Will it Fly? [1991]
Their Biggest Racing Thrill... [1959]
Three Traditional Races [1999]
Top Campaigners: The Schoeniths and Their Gales [1959]
Top Season Slated in Unlimited Class [1964]
Tri-Cities: Lamb-Weston Columbia Cup Has Rich History
Tuning-Up and Driving the Racing Motor Boat [1933]
Twenty Safety Improvements 1966-1986
U.S. Readies Jet Boat Assaults This Year On Water Speed Record [1965]
UIM World Champions 1938 – 2013
Upper Mississippi River Motorboating [1908]
What Became of Miss Canadas III & IV?
When Hydros Were Kings Of Our World [1998]
Whispering Turbines – Powering Winners
With Hydros You Get What You Pay For [1999]
World Championship Winners [1938-2006]
World Championship Winners [1937-2012]
World Kilo Record For 11 Peters & May
World Speed Record Attempt (1908)
Year of the Green Dragon - 1964 Season Summary