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22 gave a demonstration of motor vehicles at Tunbridge Wells on October 15, 1895, at which members of Parliament and other prominent people to the number of fully ten thousand were present. In the meantime, a financier had purchased from Mr. F. R. Simms the rights for the United Kingdom in the Daimler patents. An exhibition of motor vehicles was held at the Imperial Institute, London, in 1896. At the same time companies having prodigious capitals were



floated, and when, on November 14, 1896, motor vehicles were allowed to run on the roads, popular enthusiasm had been thoroughly aroused, and the start of what was virtually a race from London to Brighton on that day was witnessed by an enormous crowd.

It is only right that it should be recorded here that Mr. Ellis took up the motor movement from patriotic motives, and