Arnold (automobile)

William Arnold & Sons of East Peckham, Kent, was an agricultural engineering company founded in about 1844.

This was the first time that cars were allowed to do 14 mph and it was the first meeting of the Automobile Club (for male drivers).

[5] One Arnold from 1896 was fitted with one of the world's first self-starters, by electrical engineer Herbert John Dowsing.

This was a dynamotor coupled to the flywheel, designed to assist the car on hills and well as starting the engine.

[7][8][9] In 1902 there was a Chilean car, probably inspired in this one, but that was named Ovalle-Hogdkinson "La Chancha" ("The Pig" because of the sound it did), that was revealed in April 1902, but stored in May of the same year and later dismantled.