London to Brighton Emancipation Run Armenia She is wearing a wide-brimmed

She is wearing a wide-brimmed hat

Monument to Richard Martin

running on pneumatic tyres

View of a gate in Elm Court

London to Brighton Emancipation Run Armenia She is wearing a wide-brimmedLondon to Brighton Emancipation Run, 1896. A huge crowd gathered on the street. In Britain in the 1890s, the law still required motor vehicles to be preceded by a pedestrian carrying a red flag to warn other road users, which effectively restricted the vehicles' speed to 4 mph. A number of pioneer motor car enthusiasts campaigned actively to have the law altered. In 1896 the Locomotives on Highways Act came into force and the preceding pedestrian was