MOTORING MILESTONES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 5

MOTORING MILESTONES.

'".• A'BAPID EVOLUTION. \ T 5 * «WWc»patiQn of the motorcar f m fro» November Htb, 1896, oo Jmk day the"Red JTtog;" law requir* JSjjowivpropel!*d vehicles to be pr«3*W by » signalman was abolished. fyfa tii» time motorists had been mused by the enforcement of walkspeed limits which had sore- . tftried the flexibility of their stogie* Wader engines. It was common, for » tar to stall in a main street and

t jww eo recalcitrant that it would i we to be removed by a horse. > . Bwro were' people who considered } .w»t the motor should be prohibited, t *»4 whenever a horse bolted there was ; ft outcry against the terrorising w*» ; Ntine, \ .U» history of the power-driven car'•.'2P &** f ar *her back than the in- [ mim of the internal combustion &nfe?* 17 69 Cugnot built a steam \ f, Jjrwrse-less" carriage, and the idea until a number of re'rffjawa vehicles with tall funnels * J** "roping oft stage coach routes. ' of the steam carv it* many failings somewhat , sywted patronage. The first petrol- '?»» car was built in 1870 by. Mar's *» AwtrUn. In 1876 the fourpresented advantages T two-cycle type had not posg" 0 ! and engineers became more in- " Oi *P the possibilities of 6peedy f™?*Wn. The most interesting con--1 2S? 1 ? devised for road travel ap- » S2r *5 1876 > n tl, e shape of the Do >„*«a«nd Bens tricycles, the former r !S"wiven, and the other powered rWt freakish petrol engine. , V,^[ produced an experimental car 2*»». and in 1896 the Daimler four- \ STL;"PPeared as the first British magneto was applied to a ; 1 gg**» « 1899. At the end of 1902 AST ■ * D - * m bitious attempt to pro. V . ei g.ht-cylinder car, and M ' «Sn« p,e r "Educed a six-cylinder V.P*** 1 of 100 m.p.h. was s m lfe."! *? mi by a Frenchman. '•' fc*l,MS> h . ,ndust rv began to find its 1 *rttiHv' and tho Crst Rolls-Royce *> Wt£. i oppearance - Id tne same ° Talve cn g iue ag i VfeSg are ev cn*s of interest in |* jJT* *» years:— '' F* ¥* ee established 24-hour I »t speed of 65.9 m.p.h. *M use of supercharger on ; i WC** B PPC«rance of four-whee! '■/" SmMa 3? e « erv . clot h or sanddistributor points, JBHffliniu?- wi!l ,eave the EUr - WBSgffiSmntt' "'bber eraser will cleaner and smoother