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Alesbury

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ2641028 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Alesbury was an Irish automobile. It was powered by an 8/10 hp Stevens-Duryea engine and had solid tires. The car was exhibited in Dublin in 1907, and manufacture lasted from then until 1908.

References

Georgano, G.N., "Alesbury", in G.N. Georgano, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885-1968 (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1974), pp. 33.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907, 1908, 1885, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alesbury, Open-knowledge and entry can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as open-knowledge reference entry. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 1, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2641028. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1907, 1908, 1885 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alesbury” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.