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Excerpt from The Black Motor Car And Marie de la Mothe's vocation in life was to play with hearts, and break her toys when they ceased to amuse her or when they ceased to be profitable. She had been a widow for five years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Motor Car Dumpy Book About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Three Men in a Motor Car When I decided to write this book I felt myself under a moral obligation, not only to my charming fellow-travellers, but also to all those persons (of all colours) with whom I came in contact who so kindly supplied us with valuable information in many cases not even mentioned in guide-books. My object is to tell the story of our trips simply and impartially, showing things precisely as we found them, in the h0pe that the reader will be charitable enough to pardon any error he may find. I regret that there is no romance connected with this story, but it has been my endeavour to make it as light reading as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Motor Cars: Or Power-Carriages for Common Roads At present, however, it must be acknowledged that the successes attained with the few motor cars designed in this country in the past, and the numerous ones more recently constructed abroad, have been only sufficient to show the feasibility of this kind of loco motion, and to encourage further attempts at their perfection, as all the cars that have been as yet built. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Motor Memories: A Saga of Whirling Gears [The automobile, the airplane, the radio and the motion picture, all creations of the last thirty or forty years, have revolutionized our American scene and way of life; yet Detroit - the home of the automobile - has done nothing to preserve the records of this monumental achievement and, unless timely measures are taken to secure them from oblivion, the knowledge of the development of the automobile and its inventions will perish with the pioneers, in whose memories, alone, it today exists ... A statement in 1934 by Chase S. Osborn, former Michigan governor and the state's Grand Old Man.] About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age The chapters that follow tell the story Of a small family who went gypsying through that golden age before the war when the tree-lined highways Of France, the cherry-blossom roads of the Black Forest, and the high trails Of Switzerland Offered welcome to the motor nomad. The impressions set down, while' the colors were fresh and warm with life, are Offered now to those who will give a thought to that time and perhaps go happily wandering through the new age whose dawn is here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Car of 1912: Which Is the Latest Edition of the Locomobile Book, the Fourteenth Annual Catalogue of Locomobile Motor Cars With Which Is Combined Information of General Interest to Motorists Locomobile models for 1912 are the result of our thirteen years' experience in making motor cars. Photographic illustrations and specifications of the various models are placed at the end of the book for convenient reference. The subject matter is arranged by Chapters and indexed on pages 11, 12 and 13. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.