06-04-2024, 10:16 PM
Seeing as there are some rev heads here, 'car enthusiasts' for the purists.
Here is a relic from before the petrol engines.
It is the only one known of the original three prototypes, the 1898 Thomson Surrey, invented by General Electric.
"They were looking at whether they should get into building cars or whether they should stay with electrical systems," Mr Sorensen said.
"So they built three."
Mr Sorensen's Thomson Surrey is not to be confused with the steam car made by Herbert Thomson, which was the first wholly Australian-made vehicle of its kind from about the same era.
Mr Sorensen's vehicle was created by American inventor, and founder of GE, Elihu Thomson.
There is no record of what happened to the other two Thomson Surrey prototypes.
Here is a relic from before the petrol engines.
It is the only one known of the original three prototypes, the 1898 Thomson Surrey, invented by General Electric.
"They were looking at whether they should get into building cars or whether they should stay with electrical systems," Mr Sorensen said.
"So they built three."
Mr Sorensen's Thomson Surrey is not to be confused with the steam car made by Herbert Thomson, which was the first wholly Australian-made vehicle of its kind from about the same era.
Mr Sorensen's vehicle was created by American inventor, and founder of GE, Elihu Thomson.
There is no record of what happened to the other two Thomson Surrey prototypes.
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