London to Brighton Emancipation Run Armenia View of the Coal Exchange

View of the Coal Exchange on Thames Street

'Troope every one one'

Portrait of Fritza Riedler

running on pneumatic tyres

Monument to Richard Martin

London to Brighton Emancipation Run Armenia View of the Coal ExchangeLondon 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