Motor Vehicles and Motors (1900) - William Worby Beaumont
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                             Motor Vehicles and Motors , Their Design, Construction and working by Steam, Oil and ElectricityÂ
             Archibald Constable publishers, 1900. hardcover, illlustrated, 636 pages. re-cased, 21.5 cms x 27.7 cms x 6.7 cms, condition: very good.
THe author, William Worby Beaumont was an early automotive engineer and joint-editor of The Engineer newspaper where he remained for about ten years. During his tenure he revealed himself as a dedicated enthusiast for the motor car. In 1895 he attended an exhibition organized by the British Motor Syndicate of a Daimler motor car at The Crystal Palace in London. From 1896 Beaumont was in private practice as a Consulting Automobile and Mechanical Engineer and later was Technical Adviser to the Metropolitan Police for 12 years from 1905 in addition to acting as Honorary Consulting Engineer to the Royal Automobile Club (RAC), of which he was a founding Member in 1897.
In 1898 Beaumont was President of the Society of Engineers and was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Electrical Engineers in addition to many other learned bodies. Beaumont was a member of the Cycle Engineers' Institute and an original Member of Council of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, taking an active role in the Institution for the rest of his life. In 1906 he became a Consulting engineer to Rolls-Royce.Â
His Motor Vehicles and Motors: Their Design, Construction and Working by Steam, Oil and Electricity was printed by Archibald Constable & Co. London..
In his later years he lived at 76 Gunterstone Road in West Kensington in London where a neighbour was the author H. Rider Haggard.
