Motor transport
| At the end of the nineteenth century, Germans Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz designed a vehicle powered by ‘internal combustion engine’. The engine burnt fuel to power the machinery that made the wheels go round. They had invented the car. |  |
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Engines were then used to power buses and lorries. Motor buses and lorries were faster than those pulled by horses and unlike the horses they needed no sleep! |
| Horse trams were replaced by electric trams in the early twentieth century. Electricity collected from overhead wires was used to move the tram along its rails. Trolleybuses also used electricity in this way but they did not run on rails. |  |
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Most trains today run on diesel or electricity but early trains burnt coal to make steam that was used to make them move. |
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 | This picture shows an overcrowded bus in 1913. Can you think of more comfortable ways of carrying lots of people around? |
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