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...Hard-driving Johnny Fitch comes naturally by his love of sports cars. His father was a pioneer builder of horseless carriages in Indiana; his stepfather was president of the Stutz Co., builders of the famed Bearcat. After wartime service as a fighter pilot (a career cut short by an emergency bail-out into Nazi hands), Johnny took up high-speed road racing in earnest...
...guidebook was started at the turn of the century by Edouard and André Michelin, the bearded brothers who invented the first removable bicycle tire and are credited with the introduction of the pneumatic auto tire. With the advent of the horseless carriage, André Michelin figured that a reliable guidebook would give both tourism and the tire business a boost. He was right. Today the Michelin Tire Co., still family-owned, is one of the biggest in the world. Worth some $57 million, it has plants in France, Italy, Britain, Belgium, Spain and Argentina. Michelin loses about...
Most of these fads and fancies were duly reported by Popular Mechanics, a lusty new magazine, whose editors ignored Einstein and took a dim view of the horseless carriage ("Not that the time will ever come when ... horses [will] entirely disappear from boulevard and town . . ."). They had more faith in lighter-than-air craft than they had in airplanes. They recorded the invention of perpetual motion machines and the impact of the telephone on the Turkish harem...
Died. Frank G. Webb, 83, automobile fancier, who got one of the nation's first permits to operate his "automatic pleasure carriage," founded the American Automobile Association in 1902, helped overcome the prejudice of lawmakers against horseless carriages; in San Diego...
...contented city of 285,000 which brewed a little beer, made a few families wealthy through lumbering and mining, turned out carriages and stoves and let its arteries harden in dignity. But beer and dignity were not its destiny. Charles Brady King chugged down a street in a horseless carriage. Three months later came Henry Ford in another ugly contraption. A young inventor named Ransom E. Olds scraped up capital to underwrite the revolution. The explosion of the internal-combustion engine woke up slumbering Detroit. The engine put a nation on wheels, tracked the nation with highways, filled the countryside...