The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado around 1905 with their parents. George and Charles later ran a furnace company.
In this image two men sit behind the wheel of an Ajax Motor Car. It sported a 6-cylinder, 70 horsepower engine and was available in three different wheelbase lengths.
Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday Times, December 16, 1953, p. 51 Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, May 31, 1914, p. 45 Caption information source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(1914_automobile)
ID Number: 1995.78.2
Date: 1914
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 4.75 x 6.75 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
