Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, nine-year-old Stephen Kempton died, one of the first recorded traffic fatalities in Great Britain [23 September 1897]. Kempton had…
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Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, the Arona-Stresa-Arona race was staged, the second ever held in Italy [12 September 1897]…….. 90 years ago this…
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, London taxi driver George Smith, an employee of the Electric Cab Company, drove into the frontage of a…
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 140 years ago this week, Nikolaus Otto was issued with a US patent for his ‘Gas-Motor Engine’, ten days after receiving a German…
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 400 years ago this week, the first one-way streets were established in London [23 August 1617] . An Act of Common Council was…
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by C Harrington Moore and Frederick Simms, and…
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 140 years ago this week, Nikolaus A Otto was issued German Patent #532 for his four-stroke engine[4 August 1877] …… 110 years ago…
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, the Paris-Dieppe Race from Saint-Germains to Dieppe, a distance of 106 miles, was won by Bollee driven by…
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 100 years ago this week, Rapp-Motorenwerke was renamed Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH (BMW) [21 July 1907]…… 90 years ago this week, the Mercedes-Benz…
170 years ago this week, Georg Lankensperger (67), the German wheelwright who invented the steering mechanism that is today known as Ackermann steering geometry, died He patented the invention in Germany, but his agent Rudolph…