On this day in…
1801
224 years ago
British inventor Richard Trevithick took seven of his friends for a test ride on his “Puffing Devil,” or “Puffer,” the first steam-powered passenger vehicle, on this day in 1801 Read more…
1893
132 years ago
Henry Ford completed his first successful working gasoline engine Read more…
1898
127 years ago
Louis Renault at the age of 20, made a brilliant entrance into the emerging world of the motor car Read more…
1903
122 years ago
England issued its first car license plate, number A1 Read more…
1904
121 years ago
Henry Leland agreed to take a management role within the Cadillac Motor Car Company Read more…
1910
115 years ago
The Pierce-Arrow 5-ton truck was introduced, the world’s first motor truck with worm-gear drive Read more…
1924
101 years ago
The Ford Model T 8-foot platform-stake truck was introduced Read more…
1925
100 years ago
The citizens of Springwells, Michigan, US voted to change the city’s name to Fordson Read more…
1926
99 years ago
The first overland automobile journey across Africa from south to north was completed when the expedition of Major C Read more…
1953
72 years ago
The first prototype Lincoln Continental Mark II was completed Read more…
1961
64 years ago
General Motors styling chief William L Mitchell has his self-proclaimed “greatest moment” as Buick accepts his design for the 1963 Riviera and Chevrolet accepts his design for the 1963 split-window Corvette Read more…
1965
60 years ago
Sir John Paul Black (70) who held several senior positions in the British Motor Industry including chairman of Standard-Triumph died Read more…
2000
25 years ago
A bus traveling from Cape Town to Butterworth plunged off a mountain road in South Africa, leaving 20 passengers dead and 55 injured Read more…
2000
25 years ago
John Cooper, the driving force behind the Cooper Car Company died aged 77 Read more…
2006
19 years ago
A bus went out of control, overturns and smashes into bridge supports near Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, killing 12 and injuring 40 Read more…
2010
15 years ago
In China a new lottery system was introduced with the aim to restrict the number of new cars in its notoriously gridlocked capital Read more…
2012
13 years ago
The M4 bus lane – popularly known as “Prescott’s folly” – was scrapped, allowing ordinary motorists to use the road for the first time in more than a decade Read more…
