12-18 September: Motoring Milestones
Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: Chevrolet Camaro, Hudson, Battle of the Somme, BMW and Elvis Presley. 100 years ago this week, Hudson launched a series of publicity stunts to promote its new ‘Super Six’ engine, including a “Twice Across America” run from San Francisco to New York and back, which…
5-11 September: Motoring Milestones
Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: Bridgestone Corporation, Italian Grand Prix, Bub Seven, the first motor race and the Severn Bridge. 120 years ago this week, A.H. Whiting won the first motor race held on a racetrack [7 September 1896]. A crowd of 40,000 people watched Whiting drive a Riker electric car…
29 August – 4 September: Motoring Milestones
Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: Ford Model T, James Hunt, Formula 1, Koenigsegg and Michael Schumacher. 100 years ago this week, Studebaker announced the release of the Heaslet Special, a semi-custom touring car. The car was named in honour of Studebaker’s vice president of engineering, James G. Heaslet [30 August…
22-28 August: Motoring Milestones
22-28 August Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: Cadillac, Porsche, Jaguar, Henry Leland, and the diesel land speed record. 115 years ago this week, the Cadillac Company, named after eighteenth century French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, founder of the city of Detroit, was established [22 August 1901]. Henry Leland,…
15-21 August: Motoring Milestones
15-21 August Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: Pontiac, first pedestrian killed in the UK by a car, Formula 1, Land Speed Record, and the Mancunian Way. 120 years ago this week, housewife Mrs Driscoll (44) travelling from Old Town, Croydon to a folk-dancing display in Crystal Palace, became the first pedestrian…
8-14 August: Motoring Milestones
8-14 August Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: James Pollock, Soybean Car, Pikes Peak, Formula 1, and Knight Rider. 120 years ago this week, Ransom E Olds tested his first gasoline-powered automobile in Lansing, Michigan – the body for the vehicle was designed and built by Old’s friend Frank G Clark…
25-31 July: Motoring Milestones
25-31 July Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: Richardson Pan-American Highway Expedition, Jaguar, Bob Dylan, German Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher and the Hindhead Tunnel. 100 years ago this week, Dave Lewis drove a Crawford to victories in the 5 mile and 50 mile events at Des Moines Speedway in Des Moines, Iowa,…
18-24 July: Motoring Milestones
18-24 July Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: the Weinermobile, German Grand Prix, Studebaker, James Hunt, Terrorvision and the Mongol Rally 90 years ago this week, Otto Merz, Rudolf Caracciola, and Willy Walb, all driving Mercedes-Benz K tourers, sweet the first three places in the touring car race preceding the Grand Prix of…
11-17 July: Motoring Milestones
11-17 July Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: German Grand Prix, Mercedes McLaren, Nigel Mansell, Jaguar and Woodrow Wilson. 100 years ago this week, after being the first sitting President to visit an automobile factory, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Aid Road Act, the first grant-in-aid enacted by Congress…
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