Quality Cars and Specialist Body Makers

Kenneth Richardson
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Kenneth Richardson: Lanchester Polytechnic

Chapter 2 in The British Motor Industry 1896–1939, 1977, pp 27-60 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Writing in 1904, after the advent of royal patronage had begun to make the motor car respectable, Rudyard Kipling recalled to his friend A. B. Filson Young, one of the first motoring journalists, the very different conditions which he had endured when he first began motoring in 1897. The catalogue was a long one. His own ‘agonies, shames, delays, rages, chills, parboilings, road-walkings, water-drawings, burns and starvations’, he explained, were all among the tribulations which had gone to make his friend’s motoring safer. ‘Any fool can invent anything’, he added, ‘as any fool can wait to buy the invention when it is thoroughly perfected; but the men to reverence, to admire, to write odes and erect statues to are those Prometheuses and Ixions... who chase the inchoate idea to fixity up and down the King’s Highway.’1

Keywords: Quality Market; Paint Shop; Motor Industry; Technical High School; Crystal Palace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03388-1_2

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