19th April

    April 19th, 1890

On this day Clément Ader filed a patent relating to "a winged device for aerial navigation called an aeroplane."

Ader Motorcycles

    19th April 1918

T. E. Lawrence attacks Tell Shahm using British armoured cars.

Lawrence and his Brough Superiors

    19th April 1937

Gyon, Hungary. Eric Fernihough takes the land speed record on a Brough Superior.

Motorcycle Land Speed Records

    April 19th, 1948

LIFE magazine wrote of the Daytona Beach races "for four days last month the resort city of Daytona Beach could hardly have been noisier - or in more danger - if it had been under bombardment."

LIFE on Daytona