The Early Days of Motoring
A reflection on the beginnings of the motor car industry by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.
It would be a mistake to consider 1886 as a year of little importance. Upper Burma was annexed by Britain and Coca-Cola first bubbled into life: 1886 was also the year when the first petrol motor car appeared which can justly be claimed as one of the most revolutionary inventions of the past century.
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