Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-25 | Page 16 | Law Once Drove Auto from Road

UW ONCE DROVE AUTO FROM ROAD Machines Were Legislated From England's Roads in 1830, Records Show It would strain the imagination of the greenest cub reporter ever filled full of fake murder stories by the old-timers on the police beat, it might even defeat that well known character charac-ter ld Man Ready to Believe Any-thin?" Any-thin?" but It Is nevertheless so There was a time when the automobile was legislated off the highways as a nuisance, nuis-ance, because it scared not only horces. but people as well. "Back in 1S30 records show that tho automobile was actually legislated off the highways of England For one hlng Its wheels were breaking up the hlghwavs, and it was alarming the in- habitants and the animal. of the country coun-try its noise and weird appear-I appear-I ance The automobile referred to in I this legislation was probably more of I a steam wagon than anything approaching ap-proaching the modern automobile, but the contrast between then and now Is nevertheless very great," points out I, M. Field. "It was not until the neventlfs that the, motor truck of today was conceived," con-ceived," continues Field ' George B. Selden's first combustion engln.-. operated op-erated with laughing gas. proved to him that the primary explosion must be within the cylinder thence camo the Internal combustion engine. Sel-den Sel-den started to build a three-cylinder engine, but only one cylinder was completed when tho poor Inventors money ran out "It took him seven vears to work his Idea out, and twenty-eight years later his three-cylinder model was perfected and the first Selden truck was produced. This was in 1905. This the first Selden truck, caused a great mi neatlon and demonHtrut'.l Its right to the title of "Daddy' of all paa-pro-pelli '1 ro.'id wagons. Compared to the Seidell trucks of today, this machine Is peculiar, indeed.