Automobile Biographies / An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads - Lyman Horace Weeks

The beginning of 1905 finds us with the annual shows, which have been consecutive for many years, while the census of vehicles now in use, or made in the last ten years, will aggregate several hundred thousand. The annual production is estimated as probably approximating one hundred thousand in a few of the principal countries. The value of the electrical vehicle, particularly as the town vehicle for anything except speeding, is now well established, and reports from Paris as well as New York indicate the lack of facilities of factories in this line for producing these carriages as rapidly as demanded. Heavy ’buses and individual vehicles alike are also popular.

PIONEER INVENTORS

Nicholas Joseph Cugnot,
William Murdock,
Oliver Evans,
William Symington,
Nathan Read,
Richard Trevithick,
David Gordon,
W. H. James,
Goldsworthy Gurney,
Thomas Blanchard,
M. Johnson,
Walter Hancock,
W. T. James,
Francis Maceroni,
Richard Roberts,
J. Scott Russell,
W. H. Church,
Etienne Lenoir,
Amédèe Bollèe,
George B. Selden,
Siegfried Marcus,
Carl Benz,
Gottlieb Daimler,
M. Levassor,
Leon Serpollet.