OLD MOTOR-CARS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 48, 20 November 1928, Page 11

OLD MOTOR-CARS

PROCESSION FROM LONDON TO BRIGHTON EVIDENCE OF STAUNCH CONSTRUCTION (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, November 18. Forty-three motor-cars, all of them over 25 years old, took part to-day in a run from London to Brighton, to celebrate the thirty-second anniversary of a similar run held in 1896, when it became no longer necessary for a man with a red flag to precede motor-cars using English ’highways. Compared with modern models the cars in today’s race, few of which were fitted with windscreens, looked extremely primitive. Tlie oldest car in tlie procession was 35 years old. The early cars we're evidently stoutly built, however, and many of those on exhibition are still in use almost daily. Some have the original sparking pings, and few of them have undergone extensive mechanical repairs. One two-cylinder car was still using one tire with which It was equipped when purchased.