FIRST MOTOR VEHICLE
(To the Editor.)
. fcir,—"\ our paragraph on the above subjeec. was correct in stating that the .first I vehicle to be propelled by an internal combustion engine in linglaudwas invented by I a Mr. Butler, of Gateshead-on-Tyne, but it was incorrect in stating that thereafter the lreneh took the lead. To Germany we should ascribe the credit, for it was in tliat country the first really successful gas I engine was produced, the forerunner o£ all oil engines. There also was the first application ot oil engines to the propulsion of road vehicles.fust made. The iirst oil motor need in application to the propulsion o£ road vehicles was the • lienx, ■ a single-cylinder engine using benzolme as fuel.—l am, ctu., I( . t , T JOHN T E. HUNT. 10th June.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 8
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131FIRST MOTOR VEHICLE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 8
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