Archive Gallery: The Automobile's Humble Beginnings

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The end of the automobile must be close.

We can devoutly hope that the end of the most energy intensive, inefficient, misused, bit of technology EVER devised, will soon come to its well deserved, and unlamented end! As we all know, the auto-mobile was invented because Henry was just tired of dealing with those d****d balky horses! Talk about "unintended consequences!!"

Arnold E Stonehouse


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