Stepney wheel
March 10, 2006
How would I ever learn important stuff like this without my Forgotten English calendar?
This Stepney wheel is an ordinary [automobile] wheel, fitted with flanges to fix on to the existing wheel, and carries a tyre already pumped up, and can be affixed to your car in less than ten minutes. . . . [It] should have the place of honor on a woman’s car.
—Dorothy Levitt’s The Woman and the Car, 1909
I also learned that St. Frances of Rome, a wealthy fourteenth-century mother of three, became a patroness of “pious motorists” in the early twentieth century, and now you know this too.
Dave, still looking for those pious motorists.
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