Word: motor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan dealer advertised a "distinctive motor car, the only car of its kind available." Its engine was by Rolls-Royce, its body custom-made by Labourdette of France. Its total cost (in 1947): $44,000. It could be had today, the dealer said, for only...
From now on, all drivers who ignore their first meter violation tickets will find that a second offense brings a tow-truck to haul their cars to a garage. Last year, police checked Massachusetts cars at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and then summoned owners to be fined. However, they had no way of punishing out-of-state violators...
...flats of Dagenham, for instance, where the last of the river pirates were hanged on a gibbet a few centuries ago, Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England has one of the biggest, busiest automobile plants in Europe-34 acres, 15,000 men under one roof. Furthermore, as of the time I was there the car and commercial vehicle sections of the British motor industry had already exceeded their export goals...
...Bigger: the gifts of Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield (by now amounting to some $12 million) to endow university medical research and establish Nuffield College (for public affairs and economics...
Student owners of Massachusetts registered autos will have to have them inspected during October. Inspections are to be made at Official Inspection Stations, according to the Registry of Motor Vehicles...