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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 6 (December 1, 1931)

Revolution of the 90's

Revolution of the 90's.

Probably no one is brave enough to fly the early aeroplanes (if they survive), but drivers are found for the picturesque procession (London-Brighton) of ancient motor cars, including one rescued from abandonment in New Forest, where it had been a bird roost. Thus the world is reminded that the motor car began in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century, and the aeroplane in the first decade of the present century. Engine development of the former helped the latter. The winner of this year's London-Brighton race for the “old crocks” had spent fifteen idle years in a barn. In a 1903 Rolls Royce, Sir Malcolm Campbell took nearly four hours to do the sixty miles.