Pioneer auto and steam cars took over Regent Street today while it was closed to regular vehicular traffic. Humberettes, Knoxes, De Dion Boutons, Goessants and what have you, all sporting poppies, their owners garbed in period costume or in goggles, scarf and aviator hats. Just as delightful as these century-old cars were their individual histories – the Panhard-Levassor which was purchased in 1903, driven through France and ‘deep mud, deep water and human excrement’, and its owner Sir Stanley having been stopped for speeding in that car ‘but was saved from prosecution when the gendarme took shelter from a downpour’…
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