From the Tewkesbury Register 1899.
A MOTOR CAR IN TEWKESBURY.
At the present time a very great stir is being made in France, America and England amongst engineers, by the advent of motor cars, and all seem to agree that in a very short time many of the horseless carriages will be seen upon our highways. Through the enterprise of Mr. Osborne, our local cycle agent, who is ever on the look out for improvements in light road vehicles, Tewkesburians will be amongst the first in this country who will be able to see and try a really neat, light, simple, comfortable, fast and powerful carriage of the new kind. After examining a large number of cars, Mr. Osborne has bought a model by the International Motor Car Company, and this vehicle he intends to hire at ordinary hackney carriage rates. We have seen it, and consider it an unusually smart car. It carries four riders, back to back, at any pace between 4 and 20 miles per hour, and is driven by a three and one quarter horse power engine, fed with petrol, ignited by electricity. Two powerful brakes make it perfectly safe over the steepest hill. The wheels are of the bicycle type, shod with one and three quarter solid rubber tyres. We are looking forward with pleasure to a ride which the proprietor has promised to give us, and afterwards we sahall have something to say about our first ride on a motor car.