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Old 09-20-2015, 01:40 PM   #1
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An Everyday Journey Through Motoring History, Facts & Trivia.
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ON THIS DAY: 4 FEBRUARY
1913: A US patent for a ‘demountable tyre-carrying rim’ was issued to Louis Henry Perlman of New York City. This was the first automobile tyre rim designed to be removed and remounted.
1927: Malcolm Campbell established a new World Land Speed record of 174.883 mph along Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales driving the British built 500 hp Napier-Aero engined Bluebird. It was his third attempt to break the record, the other two ending in failure. A similar fate almost happened again when Bluebird ground to a halt after just 100 yards. “My heart was quaking”, said Campbell, but luckily the car started again and he sped off. He again avoided disaster in the middle of the record-breaking run when the wind tore off his goggles temporarily blinding him. “It was a most terrifying moment and an experience I never wish to have again as long as I live”, he said later.
1963: Margaret Hunter, probably Britain’s worst-ever learner driver, was fined for driving on after her instructor had jumped out shouting ‘this is suicide’.
1993: Ford announced plans to develop a natural-gas passenger car.
2005: Truck drivers caught speeding in an Indian state were made to hop like frogs, as police in Bihar handed out the humiliating punishments instead of taking offenders to court. In the most popular punishment, leapfrog, speeding truck drivers had to sit on their haunches, hold their ears and hop for a third of a mile.
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