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The Complete Motorist; Being an Account of the Evolution and Construction of the Modern Motor-Car, with Notes on the Selection, Use, and Maintenance of the Same, and on the Pleasures of Travel Upon the Public Roads

The Complete Motorist; Being an Account of the Evolution and Construction of the Modern Motor-Car, with Notes on the Selection, Use, and Maintenance of the Same, and on the Pleasures of Travel Upon the Public Roads


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II INDUSTRY AND SPORT The difficulties of the beginner?The inevitable friend?Brass and paint?The modest advertiser?The Crystal Palace nightmare?Vicissitudes of a young industry?An old woman and her loaves?Popular fads?Every man his own fool ?The Automobile Club?Motor racing?Police and the law?The International struggle. THE amateur who proposes to buy his first motor-car finds himself launched into a stupefying atmosphere of rivalry, bewilderment, contradictory opinion, and opposite advice. At first the task which he has set himself seems a simple and pleasant one. He has a friend, perhaps, who owns a motor-car and is loud in its praises; why should he not get one of the same make ? But the friend (who is perhaps an honest man) begins to search his conscience and to ask himself whether or not he is justified in recommending his own car. Since he bought it a dozen other makes have come under his notice, and with that restless passion for variety and novelty that always marks a movement still in the stage of development, his loyalty to his own type or make of car is already on the wane. So he furnishes the inquirer with the names of perhaps half a dozen other makes which at least are worth looking into. The inquirer goes in turn to the representatives of each of these six cars, each of whom in turn convinces him that perfection has been attained. Perhaps he puts one of the six cars out of his selection because he does not like the colour it is painted or the shape of its seats; and this, not improbably, is the best car of the number. But having almost decided to purchase the sixth (because it was the last one he saw), he mentions the fact to twelve separate acquaintances; who thereupon implore him to have nothing to do with the car in question and recommendtwelve othe...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217381000
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 114
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217381006
  • Publisher Date: 08 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 218 gr


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