The 1000 Mile Motor Road Test

Title : The 1000 Mile Motor Road Test  
Author : Unknown
Source : Harmsworth Magazine
Year Published : 1900
Page Count : 6
Image Count : 13
Word Count : 3,208
File Size in MB : 4.4
File Type : PDF

"The chief intent of this article is briefly to show where and why we are behind the world in the question of the light, self-propelled traffic which is classed generally under the head of automobilism. For no reasonable being who keeps abreast of the knowledge of his times can for one moment deny that we are lamentably long way behind both the French and the Germans in the quality , class, and number of motor-cars adapted to all classes of traffic and to all pockets. It is the wont of those who visit Paris, and are ac­quainted with what has passed in that delightful city dur­ing the past five years, to accuse our manufacturers, of want of enterprise, and to blame them almost entirely for..."