
Ken W. Purdy
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Free-lance writer. Author of Kings of the Road and Motorcars of the Golden Past.
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An automobile is a usually four-wheeled vehicle designed primarily for passenger transportation and commonly propelled by an internal-combustion engine using a volatile fuel. (Read Henry Ford’s 1926 Britannica essay on mass production.) The modern automobile is a complex technical system employing…
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