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13 - 1950 Martin Stationette

Photo: D.Rufiange
1950 Martin Stationette

James V. Martin was a visionary inventor and spent a good part of his life creating cars with the goal of being able to distribute them on a large scale. Unfortunately, this never happened for the man. His last attempt was the Stationette, a unibody car made of... wood. It was presented at the 1954 World Motor Sports Show as the affordable car of the future.

14 - 1966 Velorex 16/350

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1966 Velorex 16/350

Here is a car that did make it to large-scale production, with more than 16,000 units built - including around 12,000 identical to the one in the Lane Motor Museum. This car is the work of brothers Frantisek and Mojmir Stransky, who were living in Czechoslovakia at the time.

The car was designed to serve people with reduced mobility and benefited from the support of organizations working in this field to be produced on a large scale. It’s believed that even as late as 1996, up to two-thirds of these units were still in use.