Albany Runabout
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The Albany Runabout was a short-lived American automobile, a High Wheeler built in Albany, Indiana from 1907 to 1908. It was marketed as "the Busy Man's Car". The car was manufactored by a local inventor and businessman John L. Tulley, who held several turn of the century patents, including a gauge to measure oil. Mr.Tulley was a natural mechanic whose early days were spent as a surveyor's assistant. He then went on to assist in building power and light plants around the midwest before arriving in Albany to form the Albany Automobile Company about 1906. The Albany Runabout had two opposing cylinders and was air cooled. Up to 850 cars were said to have been built and they were shipped to all parts of the country, with at least one vehicle shipped to England.
Local legend has it that Henry Ford came to Albany to look at the Runabout and exchange ideas with Tulley.
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