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Wisconsin’s Milwaukee Mile is the world’s oldest operating motor speedway

The Milwaukee Mile has hosted auto racing since 1903, making it the oldest continuously operating motor speedway on the planet. But before The Mile was home to motorsports history, an NFL championship game, and even Led Zeppelin, it was a horse racing track. The one-mile oval in West Allis,

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Motorcycles

Royal Enfield: The oldest motorcycle brand still in production

There is a factory in Chennai, India, which produces about one million motorcycles per year. The bikes from that line trace their DNA back 124 years to a small engineering factory in Redditch, England, where two businessmen had recently purchased a needle manufacturer and had no particular plans to remain in the needle business. That

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Cars

One of America’s oldest trucking companies has been around longer than the automobile

The automobile is celebrating its 140th birthday this year. The first patented “horseless carriage”, built in 1886, started the automobile revolution that eventually saw almost the entire world unite. However, John T. Ward and his son, William, were too busy to sit around and wait for Benz and Daimler’s

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