The first automobile or horseless carriage that appeared on English roads is to be presented in model form in the United Kingdom Pavilion at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. It was driven by steam and modelled after the design of the stage coach. This vehicle was invented by a Cornish Doctor in 1827. He was Mr (afterwards Sir) Goldsworthy Gurney. Gurney succeeded in replacing the stage coach with a steam driven vehicle two months before Stevenson made the Rocket. The motor car exhibit shows models of almost every distinctive type of motor car built in Great Britain from the "Lancaster" and the Roots and Venables" of 1896 to the splendid cars of the present day. The series included models of the principal racing cars of British design and. manufacture as well as models of the patrols, road signs and other services organised by the Automobile Association and the Royal Automobile Club. This section is but one of four in the United Kingdom Pavilion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1939, Page 9
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