Postcard Memories is a weekly series of historic postcard views and photos submitted by Marcel Rousseau.
Some were previously published by the Orillia Museum of Art and History and in the book Postcard Memories Orillia.
In 1910, after many years in the carriage business, J.B. Tudhope formed the Tudhope Motor Company in Orillia, and built the Tudhope-Everitt car that sold for $1,200 to $1,500.
By 1912, the Everitt name was dropped and the Tudhope was manufactured with a price tag of over $1,600.
This advertising postcard is a unique novelty card manufactured in the U.S. The instructions on the bottom of the card read “Rub a lead pencil or edge of coin over the tires of the TUDHOPE above and blank space beneath the running board and see how to eliminate every possibility of SKIDDING."
When found, this postcard had been rubbed, to reveal chains on all four tires.