Armstrong Petrol-Electric Hybrid
The Armstrong is the oldest petrol-electric hybrid automobile in the world.
It is brimming with innovative and sophisticated features not seen on other makes until decades later.
For example:
- electric starter
- electrically-operated decompression valves
- automatic ignition advance/retard
- electrically operated clutch
- semi-automatic transmission
- a steering wheel instead of a tiller
Despite such forward thinking and brilliant engineering the project was not commercially viable and the Armstrong Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut built just this one example.