AUTHOR’S NOTE
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AUTHOR’S NOTEIn 1860 a Belgian built what was virtually a double-acting steam engine adapted to work as a two-stroke engine with electric ignition.
At the Paris Exhibition five years later there was a free-piston engine and in 1885 a small version of the Daimler engine was fitted to a boneshaker bicycle with two stabiliser wheels.
The English went ahead with their designs for a new Daimler, while the French in 1890 introduced the first Peugeot, which was laboriously driven from Paris to Lyons that year.
Not to be done down a year later Daimler produced a quite comfortable four-seater motor car and after that the race was on to design and produce motor cars that would attract the sportsmen of every nation.
The Americans were rather behind and then Henry Ford produced his first experimental motor car in 1896.
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