Meanings
plural automotors
- obsoleteAny motorized vehicle.
To the Publisher, THE AUTOMOTOR AND HORSELESS VEHICLE JOURNAL, 62, St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C.
1899, The Auto: The Motorist's Pictorial, volumes 3-4, page xiii2 more examples
And the demand is enhanced by the call for rubber for tires to ordinary carriages, cycles, and automotors.
1896, Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, volume 27, page 226One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.
1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784
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