Category: Motoring Milestones

Discover the most momentous motor events that took place this week in history …….. 120 years ago this week, the first car to be produced under the Mercedes name was taken for its inaugural drive in Cannstatt, Germany [22 November 1900]. The car was specially built for its buyer, Emil Jellinek, an entrepreneur with a…

Discover the most momentous motor events that took place this week in history …….. 120 years ago this week, the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland sponsored an electric car endurance trial that began 3 days earlier ended [9 November 1900]. The 4 wheel drive Lohner-Porsche was among the entrants but it was won…

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 100 years ago this week, Horace E Dodge (52) died in Palm Beach, Florida, US [10 December 1920]. With his brother John Francis Dodge American brothers, he invented one of the first all-steel cars in America. Bicycles were the first vehicles…

Discover the most momentous motor events that took place this week in history …….. 120 years ago this week, the first significant car show in the United States opened in New York City [3 November 1900]. The Automobile Club of America organised the week-long event held in Madison Square Garden. Fifty-one exhibitors displayed 31 automobiles…

Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history …… 120 years ago this week, the Remington automobile was introduced [30 October 1900]…….70 years ago this week, 1949 NASCAR champion Red Byron, who ranked sixth in the 1950 NASCAR Grand National standings, had all 1315.5 points stripped for participating in a non-NASCAR-sanctioned…

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 120 years ago this week, Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek took delivery of the first car to be produced under the “Mercedes” name [22 December 1910]. Jellinek had commissioned the Mercedes car from the German company Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG). This first “Mercedes”, developed…

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……… 160 years ago this week, an internal combustion engine designed by Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci was installed at the Maria Antonia railway station in Florence, Italy, the first instance where such an engine was put into practical usage [19 October…

Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history …….. 100 years ago this week, construction of the Holland Tunnel began [12 October 1920]. The tunnel provided a direct link between Twelfth Street in Jersey City, New Jersey and Canal Street in New York City. The tunnel has two tubes more than…

Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history …….. 120 years ago this week, the prototype Black steamer was taken for its first test drive in West Chester, Pennsylvania, US by designer Stephen C Black [5 October 1900]……. 110 years ago this week, Len Zengle, driving a Chadwick, won the 200-mile…

Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history …….. 110 years ago this week, the Vanderbilt Cup was won by Harry Grant in an ALCO-6 [1 October 1910]. The race was held at the Long Island Motor Parkway, the first US roadway designed for motor vehicle use. Privately built by William…