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• Hanomag
  ...ag first achieved international fame when it produced a number of SS troop vehicles for the Nazi regime of 1930s Germany. ...enbau AG. Road vehicles followed when in 1905 they received a contract for Steam waggons for the German army.
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• Oliver Evans
  ...the idea of applying steam power to wagons. He was granted a patent for a steam-carriage design in 1789, but did not produce a working example of such a ma ...y's dockyards, and in 1805 Evans convinced them to contract with him for a steam-powered dredge.
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• Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
  |title=1679-1681 – R P Verbiest's Steam Chariot ...experimented with working models of [[steam engine|steam-engine]]-powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting cannon, starting in 1765.
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• De Dion-Bouton
  ...her in law Charles Trépardoux. Bouton and Trépardoux had been making small steam engines and toys when they met de Dion who offered to go into partnership w ==Steam cars==
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• Stanley Steamer Company
  ...is is the longest-standing officially recognized land speed record for a [[steam car]]. The Steamer enjoyed a boom in the early 1900s before eventually bei [[Image:1912 Staney steam car.jpg|right|thumb|250px|1912 Stanley steam car]]
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• White Motor Company
  ...rst automobile was chain-drive, tiller-steered, and run by a two-cylinder, steam-powered engine mounted under the floorboards. The following year, the White Today, only about 150 White [[steam car]]s are known to remain from the 10,000 that were made.
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• Top Gear: Bolivia Special
  ...via to the Pacific coast of Chile. The presenters used pre-owned off-road vehicles, bought locally in Bolivia for less than £3,500 each.<ref>http://www.tvgui ...xtreme danger when he met a car coming the other way, when the edge of the road ledge started to crumble under his wheels.
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• Doble Steam Car
  ...J.N. (1965-74) ''Doble Steam Cars, Buses, Lorries, and Railcars'' . "Light Steam Power" Isle of Man, UK.</ref> <ref>Fox Stephen (1998). ''The Strange Triump ...but dropped out after just one semester to work with his brothers on their steam cars.
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• Crossley
  ...Manchester city centre, including manufacturing pumps, presses, and small steam engines. William (''Sir'' William from 1910) joined his brother shortly aft ...the Coptic Cross (Coptic Christianity) as the emblem to use on their road vehicles.
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• Top Gear Race to the North
  ...motorbike, and railway locomotive 60163 ''Tornado'' – a brand new mainline steam engine completed in Britain in 2008. The race saw the car, bike and locomot ...r car and Vincent motorbike, both being restricted to using the A1 primary road, rather than the modern day M1 Motorway.
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• Brake
  Brakes of some description are fitted to most wheeled vehicles, including [[automobile]]s of all kinds, [[trucks]], trains, motorcycles, a Early braking systems, used to stop vehicles with steel rimmed wheels, consisted of a curved wooden block designed to be
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• Top Gear Races
  ...Dover, which put Blackpool out of the theoretical range of all the chosen vehicles. With seconds to go before the switch-on, Richard, despite winning, claimed ===Race to the North - Car vs. Motorbike vs. Steam Locomotive===
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• Car safety
  Road traffic injuries represent about 25% of worldwide injury-related deaths (th ...nattentive driving; driving while fatigued or unconscious; encounters with road hazards such as snow, potholes, and crossing animals; or reckless driving.
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• History of the automobile
  ...automobile''' begins as early as 1769, with the creation of [[steam power|steam-powered]] [[automobile]]s capable of human transport<ref>Eckermann, Erik (2 ====Steam automobiles====
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• Gas turbine
  *150: Hero's Engine (''aeolipile'')&nbsp;&mdash; Apparently, Hero's steam engine was taken to be no more than a toy, and thus its full potential not ...cience-technology.com/Notes/Notes%201.htm |title=Taqi al-Din and the First Steam Turbine |accessdate=2008-03-29|last=Hassan |first=Ahmad Y |authorlink=Ahmad
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• Internal Combustion Engine
  ...water or steam, which then in turn does work, for example by pressing on a steam actuated piston. ...od]]s, and [[flywheel]] in which the gas essentially took the place of the steam. This was the first internal combustion engine to be produced in numbers. H
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• Amphibious vehicle
  ...lthough they ''are'' part of ''amphibious assault''. Nor are Ground effect vehicles, such as Ekranoplans. The former don't offer any real land transportation a ...ody configurations or other unconventional designs such as screw-propelled vehicles which use auger-like barrels which propel a vehicle through muddy terrain w
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• Tires
  ...eleration and handling. Today most tires, especially those fitted to motor vehicles, are manufactured from synthetic rubber, however other materials such as st ...d cause [[hydroplaning]], substantially reducing traction. However, if the road is dry, treads actually reduce grip since they reduce the contact area, hen
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• Driver's license
  ...different types of motor vehicles, particularly large trucks and passenger vehicles. The difficulty of the driving test varies considerably between jurisdictio ...was Prussia, on 29 September 1903. The ''Dampfkesselüberwachungsverein'' ("steam boiler supervision association") was charged with conducting the tests, whi
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• Transmission (mechanics)
  ...ht-angle drives and other gearing in windmills, horse-powered devices, and steam engines, mainly in support of pumping, milling, and hoisting. ...title the driver to use a [[Manual transmission|manual]] car on the public road unless a second manual test is taken. In most of the other European nations
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