New York International Auto Show
The New York International Auto Show ( NYIAS ) is a major auto show in New York . It has existed since 1900. Since 2000, the venue has been the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the Hudson River in Manhattan . In the recent past, the NYIAS takes place over the Easter weekend and lasts for one week.
Around one million viewers are expected each time. The auto show lasts a week and also features US and global novelties. The organizers have the ambition to present every brand and model series represented in the USA.
The program before the actual event includes around 100 events , conferences , forums as well as award ceremonies and other social occasions; over two dozen press conferences are given during NYIAS .
The NYIAS is comparable in size to the European Geneva Motor Show , but it lasts longer and is of greater importance.
history
The 1900 exhibition was not the first of its kind in New York. The New York Automobile Show first took place in Madison Square Garden from November 3rd to 10th, 1896 . The organizers were the Automobile Club of America and the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers (N.A.A.M.). Its managing director was Samuel T. Davis, Jr. , CFO of Locomobile Company of America and son-in-law of co-owner Amzi Lorenzo Barber .
In the early years, European manufacturers dominated the US auto market. During this era of the pleasure cars of the rich and powerful, leading manufacturers supplied chassis and complete vehicles to the United States. The New York Automobile Show offered wealthy customers and professionals the opportunity to get to know the latest trends from overseas and to follow developments in their own country. An initial separation of the exhibition areas concerned vehicle and body manufacturers.
In the Selden patent dispute
The organization had been in the hands of the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers ( A.L.A.M. ) since 1903 . Its managing director was George H. Day until 1907 . In January 1905 they negotiated a two-year agreement with the operators of Madison Square Garden to hold the auto show.
The A. L. A. M. was also one of the conflicting parties in the dispute over the Selden patent , in which it was supposed to legally enforce the rights of the patent holder. Their refusal to make exhibition space available to manufacturers without their license should be seen in this context.
In contrast, resistance was formed and from the environment of 1903 by the A. L. A. M. sued on license violation Henry Ford was a few years in parallel a counter-event of non- licensed manufacturer carried out which are the end of 1905 formally in the American Motor Car Manufacturers' Association merged (A. M. C. M. A.). Henry Ford was the driving force and with the future US Senator and Lord Mayor of Detroit James J. Couzens (1872-1936) one of Ford's shop stewards was elected first president. The spook ended in 1911 with a second instance judgment in the Selden trial, and the division between two exhibitions became superfluous.
Grand Central Palace
In the same year, the Industrial Airplane Show was held in connection with the automobile exhibition . It opened at the beginning of the year in the new Grand Central Palace exhibition building between Lexington Avenue and 46th resp. 47th Street was built over the tracks that lead to Grand Central Terminal . The aircraft exhibition was a resounding success; 15,000 visitors streamed into the exhibition hall on the opening day. Many had never seen an airplane before. The Grand Central Palace then repeatedly housed additional vehicle exhibitions until it was put to military use after 1942. It had a major impact on hotels being built here. During the exhibitions, these served as a conference venue and the manufacturers use the lobbies to display their latest vehicles there.
Premieres in the "Commodore" Hotel
In January 1919, the Commodore Hotel opened on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue with the "most beautiful lobby in the world". This was the largest room in the world at the time. It was immediately discovered as a platform for the pompous presentation of new car brands and models. Not only was there enough space here for such events; the Commodore also offered a supporting program for the auto show with symposia, meetings and banquets . Therefore, many representatives and influential personalities from the automotive industry stayed here. The first of these premieres included the presentation of the Duesenberg Model A 1920 as well as the premieres of the car brands Ace 1921 and Chrysler B-70 1924.
The New York Auto Show also took place during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but not between 1942 and 1945 when the USA was at war and no new cars were allowed to be built.
In 1956, the just completed New York Coliseum on Columbus Circle opened with the auto show. She stayed here until the building was demolished in 2000.
From the 1950s onwards, more and more European vehicles were shown. British manufacturers (many of whom developed models specifically for the US market) received their own section, as did Japanese ones later.
The NYIAS initially took place in January. Towards the end of the 1920s, the event was moved to November; today it is held in March or April.
Gallery: history
The Great Western Forty with a touring body by Abresch was shown at the Grand Central Palace in 1914.
Mercedes-Benz as of 1954 with 190 SL and 300 SL
Chevrolet Vega after 60,000 miles test drive (1977)
Individual evidence
- ↑ autohub360.com: New York International Auto Show - A Short History
- ^ NYIAS website: NYIAS History
- ^ Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. (SAE 2005), p. 85
- ^ Byers: The Selden Case
- ^ Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. (SAE 2005), p. 179
- ↑ Flink: America Adopts the Automobile - 1895-1910 (1970), p. 323
- ^ David W. Dunlap: When Trade Shows Were Both Central and Grand . In: New York Times , December 18, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
literature
- Henry Ford: My life and work , with the participation of Samuel Crowther, 18th edition, Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1923. Only authorized German edition by Curt and Marguerite Thesing
- Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. Published by SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, ISBN 0-7680-1431-X (hardcover). (English)
- James J. Flink: America Adopts the Automobile - 1895-1910 , MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 1970. ISBN 0-262 06036-1 (hardcover). (English)
- GN Georgano (Editor): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present ; Dutton Press, New York, 2nd edition (hardcover) 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 (English)
- Beverly Rae Kimes (Editor), Henry Austin Clark Jr.: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805–1942. 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola WI (1996), ISBN 978-0-87341-428-9 ISBN 0-87341-428-4 . (English)
- The Automobile of 1904 ; Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (January 1904), Americana Review, 725 Dongan Ave., Scotia NY (USA); published 1904, also covers imports
- Griffith Borgeson: The Golden Age of the American Racing Car , 2nd edition (1998), published by SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers), Warrendale PA, ISBN 0-7680-0023-8 (English)
- Lord Montague of Beaulieu: Beautiful old automobiles , Gondrom-Verlag Bayreuth; German license edition (1978)
- Axel Madsen: The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant made General Motors , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-4713-9523-4 (pbck) (English)
- Lawrence R. Gustin, Kevin M. Kirbitz, Robert A. Lutz (Introduction): David Buick's Marvelous Motor Car: The Men and the Automobile that Launched General Motors , 2nd amended and expanded edition (2011); RateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; ISBN 1-466-26367-9 ISBN 978-1466-26367-3 ; soft cover (english)
- Beverly Rae Kimes (Editor) Packard, a history of the motor car and the company ; General edition, 1978 Automobile Quarterly, ISBN 0-915038-11-0 (English)
- David A. Kirsch: The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History ; Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ and London, 2000. ISBN 0-8135-2809-7 (English)
Web links
- New York International Auto Show (accessed August 13, 2014)
- website: NYIAS History (accessed August 13, 2014)
- autohub360.com: New York International Auto Show - A Short History (accessed August 13, 2014)
- kcstudio.com: J. Harold Byers: The Selden Case (accessed May 15, 2017)