Description:Payments relating to motorcars first appear in the accounts for September 1900 in the Day Book of Stables Expenditure. An entry for 5th September 1900 states that a payment was made to ‘L. & N. W. Railway Coy’ for the ‘Carriage of Motor Car to Newport’. Other payments feature in the accounts for December for motor car spirit and for repairs to the Duke’s motorcar carried out by the Locomobile Company.
In 1901 payments appear for car parts. In July 1901 a payment was made to Whittingham & Co. ‘for Motor Car Aprons’ and British Mutoscope was paid for an ‘electric motor lamp’. Whittingham & Co. were paid again in October ‘for Motor Car Aprons’ at a cost of three pounds and nineteen shillings.
Amongst payments to the Anglo American Oil Company are payments for uniforms for the Duke’s drivers. On the 31st December 1901 Charles McLean was paid for ‘Scotch Bonnets' for the Duke’s drivers.