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Author’s NoteIn January 1906 Frank Marriott’s streamlined Stanley Steam car recorded 127.66 m.p.h. on Daytona Beach. In the same year at the Olympia Motor Show Rolls-Royce presented a new six cylinder 40/50 car that was to win everlasting fame as the Silver Ghost.
Henry Ford’s amazing Model T, produced in 1908, sold fifteen million cars before it was dropped in 1927.
The race in 1908 from New York to Paris was won by Roberts and Schuster in a six cylinder American car, the Thomas Flyer. They took one hundred and seventy days.
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