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french troops halted the German army’s attack on Paris by quickly advancing to the front lines in 1,300 Renault taxi cabs. ★ The electric self-starter for automobile engines was first invented in 1911 by the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, a company known today as DELCO.
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