OK, you supposed historians, there is a Nash Rambler
that dates from 1950 (or 1059 up to permutation).

But there was a Rambler automobile in 1897:
http://www.kusd.edu/schools/jeffery/jefferyhistory.htm
Before that, Thomas Jeffery made a Rambler bicycle.

The reason I know this is that the Jeffery family
had a mansion (long gone) in my neighborhood,
the Sheridan Park National Register District in Uptown Chicago.

Have been unable to locate a picture of the mansion,
but it had quite a footprint on the insurance map,
and they built a $20,000 addition in 1899,
when you could build a really nice big house for 5 or 10 K.
Martin C. Tangora
University of Illinois at Chicago
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