Bike week officially started last Saturday for the partiers and snowbirds looking for a bike-related spring break from this difficult winter. But the big event of the week is taking place Saturday afternoon at the Daytona International Speedway with the running of the historic Daytona 200. Practice begins this morning at the track, with sessions […]

This week marks the centenary of the incorporation of Ford Motor Company (England) Limited, Henry Ford’s first overseas company. The paperwork was signed in London on March 8, 1911, and vehicle manufacture began later that year with the assembly of Model Ts in a former tramworks in the Manchester suburb of Trafford Park. By 1914, […]

Charles Duryea, 1895, courtesy David Greenlees If anyone in America in 1896 was qualified to have an opinion on where the automobile would take us, it was Charles E. Duryea. Along with his brother J. Frank, he had been the sharp point of developing motorcars in the late 1880s, with their prototype rolling in the […]