30 October – 5 November: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ……. 120 years ago this week, Ransom E. Olds received his first patent for a “Motor Carriage” (“in which the motive power is produced by a gasolene-motor to produce a road vehicle which will meet most of the requirements for the ordinary uses on the…
6-12 November: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ……. 110 years ago this week, the first track records were set at Brooklands Frank Newton in a 25.6 hp Napier covered the flying 1/2 mile at 77.92 mph and H C Tyron in a 38.4 hp Napier raised this record to 86.75 mph later…
16-22 October: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ……. 120 years ago this week, Henry Sturmey completed a 929 mile trip from John O’Groats to Land’s End in his Coventry Daimler, to become the first person to cross Great Britain from end-to-end by automobile [19 October 1897]…….The Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Company was organised…
2-8 October: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 100 years ago this week, Georg W Houk (51), an automobile wheel manufacturer who introduced Rudge-Whitworth detachable wire wheels in the US, died in Hollywood, California [6 October 1917]……… The first Fordson tractor went in sale in the US [8 October 1917]. It…
18-24 September: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, nine-year-old Stephen Kempton died, one of the first recorded traffic fatalities in Great Britain [23 September 1897]. Kempton had been trying to steal a ride from a taxi on Stockmar Road, near Hackney, London by hanging on to a…
16-17 September: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Momentous motor sports events that took place during this weekend in history ….. ~16 September~ 1945: Hershel McGriff passed George Amick on the last lap to win the first race, a 100-lap event, on the newly paved Portland Speedway in Portland, Oregon, US. 1951: Alberto Ascari in a Ferrari 375 won the Italian Grand Prix…
11-17 September: Motoring MIlestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, the Arona-Stresa-Arona race was staged, the second ever held in Italy [12 September 1897]…….. 90 years ago this week, Isadora Duncan, the controversial American dancer, was instantly strangled to death while travelling as a passenger in an Amilcar…
2-3 September: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Momentous motor sports events that took place during this weekend in history ….. ~2 September~ 1946: George Robson, winner of the 1946 Indianapolis 500, died from injuries suffered the previous day when he crashed during a race at Lakewood Park in Atlanta, Georgia, US. 1950: Mike Hawthorn, driving a Riley Nine, won the 1,100 cc…
28 August – 3 September: Motoring Milestones
150 years ago this week, the first prearranged match race of two self-powered road vehicles over a prescribed route occurred at 4:30 am, between Ashton-under-Lyne and Old Trafford (England), a distance of eight miles [30 August 1867]. It was won by the carriage of Isaac Watt Boulton, one of six he said he had run…
14-20 August: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 140 years ago this week, Nikolaus Otto was issued with a US patent for his ‘Gas-Motor Engine’, ten days after receiving a German patent for the same – his design defined the modern four-stroke internal combustion engine [14 August 1877]. Otto built his…
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