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"Like a horseless carriage" (28 April) failed to mention the Lanchester brothers who built the first British car, a one-cylinder, five-horsepower model, in Birmingham, the centenary of which was celebrated in the city in August 1995.
Elnora Ferguson, Birmingham
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