Weird wheels.

by Michael Ware: "The National Motor Museum’s (ed.Beaulieu) latest special exhibition was inspired by Stephen Vokins’ book "Weird Cars"( Haynes). It is a collection of innovative and eccentric three and four wheeled vehicles; some went into production others got no further than car number 1. The oldest is the 1896 Pennington Autocar built by American Edward Joel Pennington who came over to Britain to take the motor industry by storm. Possibly the most endearing car is the 1922 French built Leyat, which has tandem seating and a body which looks like a light aeroplane. It is powered by a 1200cc ABC Scorpion engine connected to an aircraft propeller at the front. It was exhibited at the Paris Show of 1921 and some 600 orders were taken, it is thought only some 30 actual cars were delivered." (see also the Leyat pages (helica.info)).

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