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Rh to attain high speeds with a measure of safety, and without causing the wheels to collapse, and damaging the transmission gear of the car, not to mention springs, frames and motor.

The part played by the pneumatic tyre at high speed is enormous: to quote Mr. Michelin's remark, 'it absorbs every obstacle'; it acts as a cushion and a spring, and reduces to minimum the very formidable objection of vibration.



The revival of interest in mechanical road locomotion in the United Kingdom which followed the extraordinary performance of the carriages of 1895 in France was at first very gradual. The Hon. Evelyn Ellis introduced a four-horsepower car into England in the June of 1895, having used it in France for some time. Mr. J. A. Koosen on November 21, 1895, imported a Lutzmann car. Sir David Salomons