Minerva in America
Motorcars of European manufacture appeared in the United States prior to 1900, when wealthy Americans traveled to Europe and returned with horseless carriages purchased there to use at home. Intercontinental international travel at that time, and for the majority of the first half of the 20th century, was via enormous ocean liners. Goods and products were moved the same way, in the hulls of the ships.
After the armistice of the “Great War,” it took the manufacturers of motorcars several years to resume production at levels they had seen prior to 1914. By 1920, factories were rebuilt and refitted, the workforce had recovered, and production resumed
