World’s 1st Car Ever and 1902 Motor Cars and Racing On Ogden’s Guinea Gold Cigarette Cards

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Transport has certainly come a long way over the last one-hundred odd years, from the horse drawn cart though to the indispensible modern-day motor car. OK, we’re not riding around in our own personal space ships, but motor cars have dramatically transformed our lives.

Deciding who invented the car, like with most inventions, depends on how you define it. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle, the Cugnot Steam Trolley in 1769. It is generally acknowledged that the first really practical automobiles with petrol/gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently: Karl Benz built his first car in 1885 in Mannheim.

Early 20th century ephemera, especially cigarette cards and trading cards, provide us with a window to some of the first ever motor cars. I have a collection of 1902 motor car cigarette cards, issued by Ogden’s under their Guinea Gold brand. In those days, it was not so obvious what would become the dominant standard, whether it was the electric, steam or petroleum car. The makers of petrol engine cars got the upper hand by investing heavily in mass-production techniques.

Ogden (Guinea Gold), New Series 1 B, 1902 (Just Motor Car Related Cards)

Includes:"The Smallest Motor Car", Ricker on his Electric Car, The King In Hist Motor (King Edward VII), HM King Edward VII's DAimler Motor Carriage, The King's Motor Car, Misses Sevening and Edwardine, , Model of the first Motor ever made in America, Violet Vanbrugh, Mr. Weigel on his Motor Car, Motor Bus - Kilburn Marble Arch, Car of Sir Sydney Waterlow, Rougier Winner of a Race For Large Motors, Colomb on a Mors Car, Albert on a Darracq Car, Aubert on a Co Herean Car, De Montant on a Pengeot Car, Emery on Darracq Car, Laurent on a Brasier Car, Gordon Bennett Cup, A Mammoth Motor Car - 150HP, Pauline Chase & Nina Sevening & Adrienne Augarde & Carrie Moore, The Latest in Light Motor Cars, Louie Freear, Evie Greene and M May, Dust Trails Using Westrumite, Starley Car, His Majesty King Edward's Daimler Motor Carriage, The Bertrand Motor Carraige, M. Charroy's Panhard-Levassor, The Gordon-Brillie Landau, The Four Bridesmaids In Chinese Honeymoon, Mr JW Stocks on His Napier Car, L Movers on his Racing Car, M. Fournier's Mors - The Winner of the Race From Paris to Berlin 1901

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