9-15 July: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, Thomas Cook & Son and the Compagnie d’Automobiles began the first six-day bus excursion, leaving Paris in a DeDion et Bouton steam-powered omnibus and reaching Aix-le-Bains on schedule – although successful, the firms decided against additional trips…
7-8 July: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history …… ~7 July~ 1898: The Paris-Amsterdam race organised by the Automobile Club de France began and was the first occasion when a major motor race crossed an international border. Held over 7 days and covering 890 miles, the race was won by…
2-8 July: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, the Paris-Amsterdam race organised by the Automobile Club de France began and was the first occasion when a major motor race crossed an international border [7 July 1898]. Held over 7 days and covering 890 miles, the…
30 June-1 July: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history ….. ~30 June~ 1901: The Coppa Italia run over 4 laps of the 75 km circuit at Padua was won by Guido Adami driving a Panhard 16 hp. 1910: The seventh Glidden tour ended in Chicago, and was won by Ray McNamara…
18-24 June: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ….. 75 years ago this week, Simo Lampinen, Finnish former rally driver, and one of the first of the “Flying Finns” who came to dominate the sport, was born [23 June 1943]. Having contracted polio at a young age, Lampinen was left with…
11-17 June: Motoring Milestones
120 years ago this week, the first regular motorised mail service in Great Britain began between Inveraray and Ardrishaig, Argyllshire, Scotland, using Coventry-built Daimlers [17 June 1898]……. 110 years ago this week, the single bore Rotherhithe Tunnel (1,481 m) under the River Thames in East London (UK), connecting Limehouse in the London Borough of Tower…
26-27 May: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history ….. ~26 May~ 1903: Marcel Renault, age 31, died without regaining consciousness, 48 hours after crashing on the opening day of the Paris to Madrid race. After another deadly crash, the race was cancelled at the end of the first leg from…
28 May – 2 June: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ….. 110 years ago this week, a Great Chadwick Six driven by Willi Haupt became the first supercharged car to win a speed hillclimb, when it broke the record at Giant’s Despair, Pennsylvania, covering the one mile climb in 1 minute 38.4 seconds…
21-27 May: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ….. 150 years ago this week, the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company was organised [26 May 1868]…….120 years ago this week, the Nesseldorf Prasident made its test run from Nesseldorf, Moravia to Vienna, Austria [21 May 1898]. This was the first car built in…
14-20 May Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ….. 110 years ago this week, the Fryckman automobile was unveiled in Souris, North Dakota, US [15 May 1908]…….. Middlesex County Automobile Club became the first organisation in Britain to receive written permission, from the Commissioner of Police, to hold a motoring competition…
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