American Automobile Association [SEP] inception
4, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois, when in response to a lack of roads and highways suitable for automobiles, nine motor clubs with a total of 1,500 members banded together to form the Triple-A. Those individual motor clubs included the Chicago Automobile Club, Automobile Club of America, Automobile Club of New Jersey, and others. The Automobile Club of Buffalo joined in 1903.
In 1904, the AAA merged with the very first American automobile organization, the American Motor League under the direction of the first chairman,
1910. p. X9.
- "PRES. BRISCOE OF U.S. MOTOR CO. DENIES AUTOMOBILE COMBINE; Declares Emphatically That Reports of Consolidation of His and General Motors Co. Are Without Foundation." "Wall Street Journal": Sep 14, 1910. p. 5.
- "UNITED STATES MOTOR CO.; INTERESTING FACTS OF THE $30,000,000 CONSOLIDATION ARE BEING DISCLOSED." "Wall Street Journal": Sep 15, 1910. p. 6.
- "AMERICAN MAKERS TO INVADE ENGLAND; Benjamin Briscoe Forms the United