BRITAIN’S OLDEST CAR
Too Fast for Speed Limit
Despite its apparent lack of radiator, cowling, streamline and even engine, the oldest motor car still “in harness’’ in Britain has been in the market. It came into the news recently when it was offered for sale, after having been in the hands of its owner, Mr James Bryce, since 1893. This auto is probably unique. It is claimed to be Britain’s oldest motorcar still on the roads. It has twice won the annual “Old Crock’s Rave from London to Brighton, and is probably the lowest powered car in use ui Britain, being a five-horsepower Panhard.
When Mr Bryce first drove it the car had to be preceded by a man waving a red flag. Now all that holds it up is the 30-mile-an-hour speed limit, for it “does” 32 miles per hour.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 232, 17 September 1935, Page 3
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