At last we made a visit to this museum in Boyertown, Berks County. Rather than a collection of the big names, this museum emphasizes bicycles, horse-drawn wagons, carriages and continues on into motorcycles and automobiles that were designed and built in southeastern Pennsylvania. Some from larger cities, such as Philadelphia and Reading, others from some smaller towns. As happened elsewhere in the country, the earliest autos were often from buggy and coach builders trying to stay on the leading edge of technology. Even though he is a seventy-year resident of the Philadelphia area, there were a number of makers here Ye Olde Photographer had not previously heard of.

The museum site itself was the Jeremiah Sweinhart factory beginning in 1872 with the manufacture of horse-drawn carriages and farm and delivery vehicles. Eventually the site was the Boyertown Auto Body Works which made all sorts of vehicles for the military, the Post Office, and an assortment of commercial applications

In the fall of the year, the museum sponsors Duryea Day, an auto show and family fun event named for Charles Duryea who is considered the first commercial auto maker. His operations began in Massachusetts, but moved to nearby Reading Pennsylvania in the early 1900s.