Horace W. Harrison
Horace Washington "Horrie" Harrison (1878 – 13 August 1952) was an Australian motorists' advocate in the early years of the 20th century. History He was reckoned to be the first owner in Victorian of a "self-propelled vehicle": a three-wheeled . Other reports have his first car a De Dion Bouton, De Dion in 1898, and have him working for the Tarrant automobile company before joining the Vacuum Oil company in 1905. Two years later he was appointed manager of the company's Victoria division. He was motoring editor for ''The Age'' and ''The Leader (Melbourne), The Leader''. He was an early advocate of the motor omnibus in Melbourne as a competitor to railways, and was on the board of directors of the Melbourne Motor Omnibus Company. Harrison was well-known as a motoring enthusiast in 1912, when he resigned his position as an executive with the Australian subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company to become editor of ''The Australian Motorist''. He was also editor of ''The Motor World' ...
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