Jenatzy ‘La Jamais Contente’ 1899
Original price was: £20.00.£12.50Current price is: £12.50.The first powered land vehicle to exceed 100 kilometers per hour (breaking the land speed record at the same time).
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3 prints from 1967 never published by © Hugh Evelyn; illustrator George A. Oliver(1920-1990). Produced for Regent Oil Co (then Texaco, now Chevron), publication was aborted on merger.
Printed on high white matt cardstock of 136 gm/sm².
Size: c. 47½ cm x 34½ cm (18¾″ x 14½″) but image size may vary slightly. Images shown are scans.
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The first powered land vehicle to exceed 100 kilometers per hour (breaking the land speed record at the same time).

On January 12, 1904, Henry Ford and his riding mechanic Ed “Spider” Huff set a world speed record of 91.37 miles per hour on a frozen Lake St. Clair, northeast of Detroit.

A car that broke the world speed record 4 times between 1909 and 1914
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