The Arsenal was an English

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 car

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 manufactured at St Albans

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, Hertfordshire

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 from 1898 to 1899. The Bollée

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-like tricycle

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 was reputed to be 3½hp

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. The manufacturer said the car had "practically the control of one of the largest and best-equipped plants of American

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 Automotive Machinery." The tiller-steered car, which could carry "two or three persons, or four children," cost £59.