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MOTORCAR TIDBIT
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 9 December 1931]
The motor car has not yet, unfortunately, lived down the reputation as a slayer, acquired a century ago by its immediate predecessor, the steam carriage.
In June, 1831, “Mr. Gurney’s Steam Carriage,” while giving exhibition runs in the square of the cavalry barracks at Glasgow, suddenly exploded, fatally injuring some of the daring passengers. The accident prompted Tom Hood to write:
Instead of journeys, people now
May go upon a Gurney,
With steam to do the horse’s work
By power of attorney.
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