Stoddard Tiger Trucker Hat

Founded in 1869, Stoddard first manufactured farm implements such as this “Tiger” sulky hay rake that Columbia is riding across the sky. By 1890 they had sold 200,000 such rakes. Later the company began building bicycles and then in 1904, reincorporated as the Dayton Motor Car Company, they built Stoddard-Dayton automobiles. It was a Stoddard-Dayton that won the first race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909 and was the pace car for the first Indianapolis 500 held in 1911.