Memories in Overdrive of a Grand Old Car Race ; Cars Were Still Very Much a Novelty Back in 1900 - and a Crowd of Onlookers Gathered As Competitors Prepared to Set Off From Cheltenham During the Famous 1,000-Mile Time Trial That Captured Britain's Imagination at the Dawn of the Motoring Era.

Western Daily Press › August 07, 2008

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Cars were still very much a novelty back in 1900 - and a crowd of onlookers gathered as competitors prepared to set off from Cheltenham during the famous 1,000-mile time trial that captured Britain's imagination at the dawn of the motoring era.

The photo above is one of 30 images in a long-lost album that surfaced at the home of a descendant of the chairman of the Auto Machinery Company in Coventry.

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Memories in Overdrive of a Grand Old Car Race ; Cars Were Still Very Much a Novelty Back in 1900 - and a Crowd of Onlookers Gathered As Competitors Prepared to Set Off From Cheltenham During the Famous 1,000-Mile Time Trial That Captured Britain's Imagination at the Dawn of the Motoring Era.

The album is entitled The Progress of Automobilism 1896-1900 and should fetch about pounds3,000 when it is offered...

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