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unusual facts about motor car



Fontaine-le-Bourg

Motor engineer Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (1856–1901), who, in February 1884, together with Léon Malandin, built and drove a motor car fitted with a 4 stroke internal combustion engine from here to Cailly.

H. C. Casserley

Casserley acquired his first motor car in 1934, which aided his reaching obscure small railway lines and investigating windmills, in which he had also developed an interest.


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Car turntable

The architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed and implemented several residential vehicle turntables including the 1922 Doheny Ranch Estate in Beverly Hills, California, designed but never built for Edward L. Doheny, a Los Angeles oil tycoon and the Westcott House built in 1908 in Springfield, Ohio, for Burton J. Westcott, designer of the Westcott automobile and founder of the Westcott Motor Car Company.

Clarence Brown

An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama.

Clifford Earp

The Thames motor car was manufactured by the Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding, and Engineering Company Ltd., of Greenwich.

Detroit-Oxford

The Detroit-Oxford was an automobile manufactured in Oxford, Michigan by the Detroit-Oxford Motor Car Company from 1905-06.

Fritz Fiedler

While Schleicher was at Munich on motorcycle development and the competition side of BMW motor car activity, Fiedler was at Eisenach in overall command of the car side of BMW, specialising in chassis, suspension and aerodynamic design and development.

Geraldine Hervey, Marchioness of Bristol

Lady Bristol died in 25 January 1927 in St George's Hospital on Hyde Park Corner after being knocked down by a motor car and was buried in the grounds of the family home, Ickworth House, two days later.

Henry Vollam Morton

In 1926, as motoring was becoming established in the UK, he set off to drive around England in a bull-nosed Morris, an early mass-produced motor-car.

Howard A. Coffin

He worked as a representative for the book publishers, Ginn & Co., 1901-1911; controller, Warren Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, 1911-1913; manager, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, of Michigan, 1913-1918; secretary, Detroit Pressed Steel Company, 1918-1921; assistant to president, Cadillac Motor Company, of Detroit, 1921-1925; vice president and later president, White Star Refining Company, 1925-1933; general manager, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, 1933-1946.

Huisgenoot

In the issue of 18 September 1959 a competition was launched where a Borgward motor car worth £919 was the first prize and the second prize was a radio worth £90.

J. Frank Duryea

On November 28, 1895, Frank Duryea won the first motor-car race in the United States, a 54-mile loop along the lakeshore from Chicago to Evanston and back again.

Janine Gibson

Her father was an employee of the motor car manufacturer Ford of Europe, and her mother a teacher, Her father's work for Ford meant that the family moved every few years, settling in several countries before returning to Germany.

Marmon

Marmon-Herrington, the successor company to the Marmon Motor Car Company.

New Zealand EM class electric multiple unit

The 44 two-car units of an EM motor car and an ET trailer car were introduced between 1982 and 1983 on the 1500 V DC electrified Kapiti Line, Hutt Valley Line and Melling Line.

Peugeot Type 14

The Peugeot Type 14 is an early motor car produced between 1897 and 1898 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant.

Peugeot Type 25

The Peugeot Type 25 is an early motor car produced by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant and listed between 1898 and 1902.

Peugeot Type 68

The Peugeot Type 68 is an early motor car produced by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant during 1905.

Ropes Creek railway line

At Dunheved railway station, a fenced in compound was constructed on the down branch and down No. 1 siding, and 2 suburban train carriages were stored there for use by the NSW Fire Brigade for training purposes - Comeng motor car C3866 and Goninan Tangara car N5127.

Trebah

One of the subsequent owners was Donald Healey, the motor car designer, who removed some of the concrete military structures and provided a boathouse on the beach.

Upholstery

A few high-quality motor car manufacturers still employ trimmers, for example, Aston Martin.