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Motor Car [B 7485] • Photograph

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Summary

The first combustion engine motor car built in South Australia by the Lewis Cycle and Motor Works in Gawler Place, Adelaide. The Lewis No.1 car had a two horsepower air-cooled engine. Vivian Lewis is at the wheel, with T.P. O'Grady beside him, and Murray Aunger, the Lewis Cycle works star racing cyclist, is seated just ahead of the front wheel. Workmen from the Lewis Cycle and Motor Works stand around. November 1900.

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.7 cm x 13.9 cm

Dates / Publication details

1900

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Aunger, Murray, 1878-1953
Lewis, Vivian
O'Grady, T. P.
Men -- South Australia -- Adelaide
Automobiles -- South Australia -- Adelaide -- Design and construction

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Digitisation information

Date

18/10/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,200 x 2,196 pixels (7.0 MP)

Size

21.11 MB

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