MOTORING; BLUE BOOK.

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The Law as to Motor Vehicles: First and sole edition of this very scarce and significant Blue Book, not on Library Hub or WorldCat. "An important Blue Book has been issued by the Automobile Club upon the Law as to Motor Vehicles... [and addresses] this very acute problem... [which] when the question of further regulating motor cars is so much in evidence, should do an enormous amount of good amongst those who should be mainly responsible for the introduction of any new law. The pamphlet has been circulated to every member of the House of Lords, the House of Common, and over 4,000 members of County Councils, and includes, besides the speeches already referred to, a report of the County Council's deputation to the Local Government Board upon the speed question, an important letter signed by the General Council of the Automobile Club, which was distributed in March last [1902] to over 2,000 papers in the United Kingdom, and dealing with the importance of the industry upon the future of Great Britain, extracts from a memorial of manufacturers and sellers of motor vehicles to members of the County Councils of England and Wales, results of brake trials at Welbeck Abbey, &c." (The Automotor Journal, 17 January 1903)."In 1884 Daimler built his first vehicle driven by a petrol internal combustion engine, and Benz followed a year or so later with the invention of the motor tricycle. So the 'motorist' or 'automobilist' came into the picture [of highway legislation] for the first time...

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