Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,710 pages of information and 247,104 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Timeline: Automotive: Difference between revisions

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* See [[Timeline: Automotive 1900|1900]]
* See [[Timeline: Automotive 1900|1900]]
* See [[Timeline: Automotive 1901|1901]]
* See [[Timeline: Automotive 1901|1901]]
1901 May. The [[1901 Automobile Club Show|Automobile Club Show]]
1901 May 2nd. The [[1901 Dashwood Hill Trial (May)|Dashwood Hill Trial]] held in May
1901 Jun 6th. [[1901 Dashwood Hill Trial (July)|Dashwood Hill Trial]] held in July
1901 June 3-7th. [[1901 Trials of Motor Vehicles for Heavy Traffic|Trials of Motor Vehicles for Heavy Traffic]]
1901 Sep 2nd. The [[1901 Glasgow Trials| Glasgow Trials]]
1901 Nov. [[1901 Cycle Shows (Stanley and National)|Stanley Motor Show]] at the Agricultural Hall, Islington
1901 Nov. [[1901 Cycle Shows (Stanley and National)|National Motor Show]] at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
* See [[Timeline: Automotive 1902|1902]]
* See [[Timeline: Automotive 1902|1902]]
* See [[Timeline: Automotive 1903|1903]]
* See [[Timeline: Automotive 1903|1903]]

Latest revision as of 01:11, 19 March 2018

This timeline focuses on the vehicles produced after the introduction of the Internal Combustion engine and does not cover the pioneering efforts of people like Richard Trevithick, Walter Hancock, Goldsworthy Gurney, William Alltoft Summers and other early inventors of powered road vehicles.

1880 Harry J. Lawson patented what he claimed was the first British motor car, in which the "force" was supplied by petroleum[1]

1888 Edward Butler builds the Petrol-Cycle

1892 Frederick William Bremer built a car powered by a single-cylinder engine running on paraffin

1892 James D. Roots built a strange two-stroke tricycle which also ran on "heavy oil"

1893 May 26th. The Daimler Motor Syndicate formed to take over the UK Daimler interests. The objective was to fit Daimler engines in to boats and the business was based from Arch No 71, Putney Bridge Railway Station

1894 Charles Santler modified his vehicle to use a combustion engine - formerly 1889 he had built a steam-powered vehicle

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times (London, England), Thursday, May 21, 1896