Part 13 (2/2)

The connection of Sir David Saloement and developdom, constitutes one of the most important chapters in the contemporaneous history of the automobile His first step to secure a favorable public opinion for the legislative measures that he proposed was to have an exhibition of vehicles, which took place at Tunbridge Wells, in October, 1895 As a result of this exhibition and a voluminous correspondence thereafter, the newspapers of Great Britain and many of the ht to see the justice of the measures asked for

Next, the Self-Propelled Traffic association was organized Sir David Salon for Parliaetically prosecuted When the bill came before the Commons and the Lords it was substantially supported, but its provisions received a great deal of discussion So to the questions of smoke and petroleum use, were attached to it In the end, however, the act that was passed was generally satisfactory to all interested in the promotion and protection of self-propelled traffic It has been said that ”there has hardly been an act passed containing more liberal clauses and with more unity of action”

Its provisions allow of reasonable travel of all kinds of self-propelled vehicles throughout the Kingdoarded as one of the eneration

LEON BOLLeE

A brother of A interested in the business that bears the faht out a motor cycle that was a type between a cycle and a vehicle It had two front steering wheels and one front driver The saht work, such as parcel delivery

JOSEPH GUEDON

Guedon made his appearance at Bordeaux, in October, 1897, with a four-wheeled wagonette, which he made under the name of the Decauville

His special construction was claiely eliminate the vibration of the vehicle, and his success can be fairly judged from the results in the past few years The Decauville cars have been developed and refined to such a point as to be a the best of the French makes, and now have an international reputation

RENE DE KNYFF

De Knyff becaentlereat a of Chauffeurs, having won several of thethe Panhard cars to victory

ADOLF CLEMENT

Born in 1855

Entirely a self-made man, Clement had experience as a locksmith and served an apprenticeshi+p as a tins establishment which, in 1894, was considered one of the finest in France In time this developed into the finest cycle manufactory in that country It is situated in Levallois, near Paris In 1899, Clement contracted with Panhard & Levassor to manufacture under their patents, and in 1900 he ht vehicle of four horse-power Since then he has developed his automobile factory, and in the past few years has produced competitors for honors in the first class, which are known at home and abroad as the Bayard or Clement-Bayard cars

A DARRACQ

About fifty years of age, Darracq has had an energetic and successful career He is now president of the Society of Engineers, Paris, and a ion of Honor He is best known as an inventor in connection with the auto his inventions are a shaft drive and a beveled gear drive which are now universally used He originated the idea of placing the operating lever on the steering post and made the first ineer and est factories in the world

[Illustration: A DARRACQ]

JAMES GORDON BENNETT

So interesting was the sporting side of the automobile movement that it early attracted the attention of Jareat runs, or tours, or races commenced in 1891, and continued annually fro of the Bennett trophy for international coested by the America yacht cup races In January, 1900, this was announced in Paris, and the custody of the trophy initially given to the Automobile Club of France as the first and fore Elaborate and excellent rules govern the annual competition for the trophy, and the races are held in the country whose representative has won in the previous year In this way the first race was in France, as well as the second, and the 1903 race in Ireland, while that of 1904 was held in Germany, but on by a Frenchain be held in the land of the original custodians of the trophy