Kana nhasi miganho yokumhanya yakajairika uye kuipfuura kungareva faindi kana kuti kurambidzwa kutyaira, mumazuva ekutanga emotokari, zvisingaite, mamiriro ezvinhu akafanana.
Uye kana ndichitaura nezve "kutanga kwemotokari", ndiwo matangiro chaiwo. Nemamwe mashoko, vachiri muzana remakore. XIX, muna 1896, makore gumi mashoma mushure mekuonekwa kwekutanga "ngoro isina bhiza".
Sezvaungafungidzira, motokari dzaitenderera dzakanga dziri shoma zvikuru. Zvisinei, muLondon, pakanga patova nemiganhu yokumhanya yemotokari. Uye cherechedza, kwete chete kuti miganhu yakanga yakadzikira zvisingaite - mamaira maviri chete paawa (3.2 km/h) - asi murume aifanira "kuchenesa" nzira pamberi pemota, netsoka (!), uye kuvheyesa Red mureza. Inoshanda, handizvo here?
Walter Arnold, uyo pakati pezvimwe zviitiko, akawana rezinesi rekukwanisa kugadzira mota dzeBenz, achigadzira Arnold Motor Carriage, aizopinda munhoroondo semutyairi wekutanga kubhadhariswa faindi yekumhanyisa. Motokari yako, yakadanwa Arnold Benz , yakatorwa paBenz 1 1/2 hp Velo.
Kushata kwacho kwakakonzerwa kwete nekusavapo kwemurume ane mureza mutsvuku, asiwo nekumhanya kwaaive achifamba, uko kwaimhanya zvakapetwa kana kupfuura kumhanya kwakabvumidzwa - "akakatyamadzwa" mamaira masere paawa (12.8 km/ h). Anopenga! Akanga akarongerwa mumwe mupurisa aifamba ne… bhasikoro.
Nekuda kwekushandiswa kwakaitwa Paddock Green kuKent, Arnold akabatwa nemhosva uye akabhadhariswa shillingi pamwe chete nemari yekutonga. Sezvineiwo, nguva pfupi yakatevera iyo yekumhanya yaizokwira kusvika 14 mph (22.5 km/h) uye mutakuri wemureza mutsvuku aizobviswa kubva mumutemo.
Kupemberera chokwadi ichi, mujaho wemotokari wakarongwa kubva kuLondon kuenda kuBrighton, inozivikanwa seEmancipation Race, umo Walter Arnold akatora chikamu. Mujaho uyu uchiri kuitika nhasi, wakanangana nemotokari dzakagadzirwa kusvika gore ra1905.
Mota yakabhadhariswa Walter Arnold ichave ichiratidzwa mugore rino (NDR: 2017, gore rekutanga kuburitswa kwechinyorwa) edition yeConcours of Elegance, inoitika kuHampton Court Palace munaGunyana unotevera. Counterpoint kuna Arnold Benz, iyo Jaguar XJR-9 iyo yakahwina Le Mans muna 1988, uye iyo McLaren F1 GTR ine Harrods pendi ichave ichiratidzwa, kunyangwe izvi zvisingazoonekwe.