Antedating of 'parking brake' (automotive) (1920)
Sam Clements
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
Mon Dec 22 02:11:09 UTC 2003
M-W has 1930. OED has 1944.
Using Ancestry.com, from the Washington Post, March 30, 1924. Page 8, col.
3;
<<A hand lever connecting with the entire system serves as a parking
brake. >>
An article about the "Flint Forty" auto.
"Emergency brake" has an application in train terminology and so goes back
to the 19th Century. I found an antedate of 1891 for that train use to
supplement the m-w 1900 cite.
SC
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