Excerpt from Automobile Biographies: An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified With the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads Along these lines of thought this book of automobile biographies has been prepared. On its pages are sketches of the lives and the work of those who have been most active in planning, inventing and perfecting the mod ern horseless highway vehicle, in adapting it to the public needs for pleasure or business and in promoting its use fulness and broadening the field of its utility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.