Show BEGINNINGS OF THE AUTO Gottlieb Daimler Was Father of the Infant Motor Car How many persons remember asks the London Times that from 1834 to 1840 George Hancocks Hancock's steam coaches ran at a profit between Paddington and the city Is it realized generally that Gottlieb Daimler the true father of the petrol engine had worked In England as well as In Germany before te- te fore tore he patented in 1884 only the theOtto theOtto theOtto Otto gas engine and fitted it in 1886 to his bicycle which may be regarded at the first motor car driven by an explosion engine From this date progress abroad was of remarkable rapidity while in England none was possible until in 1895 Evelyn Ellis imported a four horse power and Sir David a There followed a modest demonstration tion at Tunbridge Wells of these two vehicles a De Dion steam car and a petrol bicycle and then after some agitation the light locomotives act of 1896 In fact from a modern modem point of view Gottlieb Daimler Is the parent parent parent par par- ent of the infant motor car and Henry Chaplin Is its sponsor in England |