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366 August 21. Sold our car and ordered another of same make (which we have driven many thousand miles in the last five years).

Who will deny after the reading of Mrs. Koosen's diary that the autocar has given one more conclusive proof of the indomitable character of our race, and of the highest form of human unity, that of husband and wife, being a strength that overcomes all obstacles? Mrs. Koosen will live in history as the first lady of our land to steer an autocar and to have the moral courage to confess that her maiden effort ended in a smash; and Mr. Koosen can pose as the first English martyr of the autocar propaganda, though his suffering consisted only in the extraction from him of one shilling. I do think that if Mr. and Mrs. Koosen's first car can be traced, even though it be to a scrap heap, it should be preserved, and find a place in the museum which must be established for power-traction curiosities.

We had also a pioneer in Scotland, the Hon. T. R. B. Elliot, whose reminiscences of his early days of motor-car driving are as follows:—