Wing Commander Charles Rumney Samson attached a Maxim machine gun to the back of his open tourer and used it to strafe a German staff car he happened upon.
Mr. Hunter applied another maxim to the car as well: "A Rolls-Royce doesn't break down, it fails to proceed".
That maxim once applied to Detroit's Big Three car companies, when they dominated American manufacturing.
In an interview with Maxim, he said sweat was found under the car's hood, asking: "Do the cops also have a vial of his sweat that they are carrying around?
Her grandfather, Sir Hiram S. Maxim, was the inventor of the machine gun that bears his name and her father, Hiram Percy Maxim, invented the Maxim gun silencer and the first electric car manufactured by the Pope-Hartford Automobile Company.
The lore of automobiles, passed from parent to child and car owner to car owner, is filled with archaic maxims, folk wisdom gone slightly askew, and downright urban legends.
The third story, which illustrates the maxim that a fool and his money are soon parted, follows Joey (Mr. Montias), a credulous car thief yearning for respectability, who has amassed $100,000 to buy a tire store.
At the other end of a spectrum that also spans a cornucopia of computer magazines, car titles, the adult comic Viz, the paranormal chronicle Fortean Times and others, sits Maxim.
As it happens, Voltaire's maxim may also be useful in explaining what will happen in the field of autonomous vehicles, aka self-driving cars.
