After the Parisian Exposition Internationale de Velocipedie et de Locomotion Automobile in 1894, English technology enthusiast Sir David Salomons was determined England should not be eclipsed by the rapidly developing French industry. “I am deeply interested in our English manufacturers producing a carriage which shall eclipse all others,” he said in The Sketch, and promoted […]
If the 50th anniversary of the nation’s first automobile smog bill hasn’t been overly memorialized, well, we’re not surprised. Between emissions regulations, safety oversight, insurance premiums and OPEC, the law enacted in April of 1960 was the first, and maybe most important, factor in ushering the almost 20 years of low-performance Seventies and Eighties.
With the […]
Two weeks ago, we had a heated debate on the possible benefits of what looked like it would be the nation’s first Right to Repair law, Massachusetts Senate Bill No. 2517, “An act to protect motor vehicle owners’ and independent repairers’ right to repair.” It’s all academic now, however, as the House failed to vote […]