The summer sun was already up on Aug. 24, 1910, when three Wilmington car salesmen, Thomas Brown, Harold Jefferson and Harold Harvey, piled into a 30-horsepower gasoline driven car made by Cole Motor ...
It was not a given that petrol-powered cars would come to dominate the world. In fact, back in 1900, just 22% of cars produced in the US were powered by gasoline (also known as petrol, benzine or ...