Topic: Solved NIC#481 - 1900 Roots & Venables 5hp Petrocar

[nicanary]

Year make and model.

[nicanary]

Experts?

[nicanary]

Pros?

[Paul Jaray]

Roots Paraffin-driven light car.

[nicanary]

Roots Paraffin-driven light car.

Yes and no. LOCKED for you of course. It's a Roots & Venables, but not powered in this case by paraffin.

What year, and what motive power?

[Paul Jaray]

From a well known source:
I edited my reply again.
I saw the same picture now as Petrocar 5hp from 1900.

[Paul Jaray]

Culshaw & Horrobin's book has the same picture as '5hp, 1900'

[nicanary]

Culshaw & Horrobin's book has the same picture as '5hp, 1900'

Every time I try to post a reply, you've written another post!  .

You have greater resources than myself. It's almost certainly a 1900 5hp car, but I got confused by website information that claimed the company produced cars powered by petrol, oil and paraffin - I've just looked at my Beaulieu and although the car was titled Petrocar, it was powered by oil(!)  which was a mixture of kerosene and paraffin. I thought "Petrocar" meant it was petrol-powered!

Thanks for the extra information. The point is awarded.

[Paul Jaray]

Thank you and before this puzzle, I had the same idea. 

[Allan L]

Language is a wonderful thing!
For many of us kerosine and paraffin are the same thing, so what's kerosene?
The term "petrol" for what the US folk call gasoline seems to have been the work of Carless, Capel and Leonard but I have an idea that the word was used for other petoleum products in other languages.