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243:. After the car overheated and Kelsey had to spend the night in a halfway house, he changed to a water-cooled engine. In 1911, Kelsey's brother-in-law and a mechanic drove a Kelsey Motorette from the factory in Hartford, Connecticut, across the country, and to
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