FIRST MOTOR VEHICLE
The first vehicle to be propelled by an internal combustion engine in England was invented by a person named Butler, in 1885. It was a tricycle, and in it tho vapour of benzolino electrically exploded provided.the motor power. Subsequently both Boots and Knight successfully employed heavy oil. Tho English laws (says a correspondent of tho "Newcastle Weekly Chronicle") were a great hindrance to tho development of the motor-car in this country, and this made it possible for tho French to tako tho lead. Gottheb Daimler's invention in 1885 of the internal couibusion motor using petroleum spirit was the first step to the production of tho modern sclf-propolled road vehicle It was not till the passing of tho Enabling Act, which removed the chief restrictions contained in the Act of 1873, was passed in 1896 that English inventors wero provided with an opportunity to show what they could do They then speedily forged ahaad and left their French rivals behind.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 6 June 1927, Page 4
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162FIRST MOTOR VEHICLE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 6 June 1927, Page 4
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