The Literature Network - POETRY IN MOTION; The Nation's favourite poet, Rudyard Kipling, was a man mesmerised by technology. When the Lanchester brothers brought their Birmingham-built car to the writer's attention, he signed up and had the 16th Lanchester delivered in pe

POETRY IN MOTION; The Nation's favourite poet, Rudyard Kipling, was a man mesmerised by technology. When the Lanchester brothers brought their Birmingham-built car to the writer's attention, he signed up and had the 16th Lanchester delivered in pe

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20000812
Author:Reyburn, Ross

Few people know that the great engineer Dr Frederick Lanchester (1868-1946) produced the first British car in Birmingham in 1895.

Even less well known is the fact that he also drove down to Sussex to deliver a new Lanchester motor car to the poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) in 1902.

That journey was to prove the start of a friendship between the two famous figures inspired by a mutual interest in this adventurous new form of transport monitored by police constables out to catch people driving those new-fangled machines above the speed limit.

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POETRY IN MOTION; The Nation's favourite poet, Rudyard Kipling, was a man mesmerised by technology. When the Lanchester brothers brought their Birmingham-built car to the writer's attention, he signed up and had the 16th Lanchester delivered in pe

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