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   From: bruce.sinclair@NOSPAMagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz.retro.com   
      
   In article , "Richard Henry"  was seen to type:   
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   >"Rodney Kelp"  wrote in message   
   >news:dK2dndrIwuDrxp3cRVn-pQ@adelphia.com...   
   >> There were many steam vehicles in the teens to the twentys. Then along   
   >came   
   >> the internal combustion engine with the electric starter.   
   >> The steam cars were winning all the world land speed records at the time.   
   >A   
   >> 20 horsepower steam engine had 600 ft/lbs of torque!   
   >> They were going 200 miles per hour back then!.   
   >   
   >On what roads!?!?   
      
   Where there have been carts there are roads ... of a sort. Yes, roads   
   were awful ... but that was part of the "fun" of early motoring :)   
      
      
      
   Bruce   
      
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