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Updated: May 3, 2025
He knew all that was to be known about the different kinds of cars; and he would roll their names on his tongue Panhard and Fiat and Daimler and Mercédès and Rolls-Royce, as if the sound of them caressed him like music.
"At Blundell's garage," I answered. "And I was buying a car?" "Yes, a fifty-seven Daimler ... that was the talk." "Could you drive a car like that?" "Could I oh, my godfathers " "Then you have handled fast cars?" "I drove with Fournier in the Paris-Bordeaux, was through the Florio for the Fiat people, and have driven the big Delahaye just upon a hundred and three miles an hour.
His chief interest was in new motors to make his airship feasible, and he taught Adams the astonishing complexities of the new Daimler motor, and of the automobile, which, since 1893, had become a nightmare at a hundred kilometres an hour, almost as destructive as the electric tram which was only ten years older; and threatening to become as terrible as the locomotive steam-engine itself, which was almost exactly Adams's own age.
He has a rival in the field whose exploits will soon relegate him into comparative obscurity. "The first visible evidence of the outrage was afforded me about a quarter of a mile from Compton. The road dips here slightly, and at the end of the incline a motor-car was drawn to the side of the road, or rather the remains of what had once been a smart Daimler of some 7 or 8 h.p.
A Daimler car was suggested and a run down to Rye. You know my American ideas, Adela. A long day alone in the country with a boy " "Mr. Craven is scarcely a boy, I think!" "But we call them boys!" "Oh, yes!" "With a boy means nothing extraordinary to a girl with my ideas. But I think he took it rather differently.
Inquiries made amongst employees of the cab company, some of whom occupied little rooms above their garages, elicited the important information that the car had been seen in the mews on the night of the murder a fact, it seemed, which had been overlooked in the preliminary police investigations. The car was a two-seater Daimler with a yellow body and a hood.
He had himself never ventured to dream of three. No man could guess what the Daimler motor and X-rays would do to him; but so much was sure; the monkey and motor were terribly afraid of the bear; how much, only a man close to their foreign departments knew. As the monkey looked back across the Baltic from the safe battlements of Stockholm, Russia looked more portentous than from the Kremlin.
Two Daimler Mercedes motors of 110 horse-power each were placed one in each car, and the vessel carried sufficient fuel for a 60-hour cruise with the motors running at full speed. Each motor drove a pair of three-bladed metal propellers rigidly attached to the framework of the envelope and about 15 feet in diameter.
You remember, Giuseppe? But in the end they let me move on. For a little I felt my way gingerly, for on the summit the road had many twists and the snow was confusing to the eyes. Presently came a sharp drop and I let the Daimler go.
In case they do not, let me add that Mary Griffin wore a blue peignoir which had seen better days, and Herbert Pearson's matches struck everywhere except on the box. With a mental flash we linked the Crinoline with the powder puffs on Wenus. Approaching it more nearly, we heard a hissing noise within, such as is made by an ostler, or Mr. Daimler grooming his motor car.
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