THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE.
INVENTOR DEAD. NEW YORK, April 14.—The death is announced of Elwood Haynes, iaventor of the automobile. Bom i* 1857 at Portland, Indiana, he designed and constructed at Kokomo in th. same State in 1893-4, a horseless carriage drive* by a petrol engine. This is the oldest automobile in America, and is now in the museum of the Smithsonian Institute. In Europe ia the meantime automobiles had already been running for several years. An Englishman named Butler in 1885 constructed what is believed to be the first motor-vehicle (a tricycle) drivea by a petrol engine, with the charge exploded electrically. On the Continent in the late 'eighties, Daimler and Benz in and Parihard and Levassor tn France built cars which in the main contain the principles still used to-day in the vast automobile industry of the world.— (A. and N.Z.),
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Wairarapa Age, 16 April 1925, Page 5
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