The motor car and its story : A description of the strange vehicles invented before the motor car, and the struggles and adventures of their inventors, with an account of the evolution of the petrol motor car, and a simple explanation of the manufacture of modern cars and of the scientific principles on which they work

The subject of this book was suggested by two requests made to the author. The Council of a learned Society requested him to write a paper on the History of the Moto-car; and a group of many officers, resident in India, requested him to write a book on the Science of the motor-car...