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'''Cars''', or '''automobiles''', were a common means of transport for [[human]]s on [[Earth]] in the [[20th century|20th]] and [[21st century|21st]] centuries. They could usually seat two to four passengers, including a driver who would operate the car manually. | '''Cars''', also known as '''motorcars''' or '''automobiles''', were a common means of transport for [[human]]s on [[Earth]] in the [[20th century|20th]] and [[21st century|21st]] centuries. They could usually seat two to four passengers, including a driver who would operate the car manually. | ||
By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, there were [[800000000 (number)|eight hundred million]] cars. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, there were [[800000000 (number)|eight hundred million]] cars. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | ||
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By the [[summer]] of [[1915]], motorcars were still somewhat novel. [[John Watson]] was still adjusting to them, and worried about the effects that they would have on what he described as his "fragile old [[Bone|bones]]". [[Carter (The Spirit Box)|Carter]], who worked for [[Mycroft Holmes]], owned such a motorcar, and used it to take Watson to [[Brighton]] to meet with [[Sherlock Holmes]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{Cs|The Spirit Box (novel)|name=Carter Spirit Box|chaptnum=1|page=11-15}}) | |||
In [[London]] in [[1924]], while on their way to the [[British Empire Exhibition]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] explained to [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] that black was the old silver for that time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Clockwise Man (novel)|The Clockwise Man]]'') | In [[London]] in [[1924]], while on their way to the [[British Empire Exhibition]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] explained to [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] that black was the old silver for that time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Clockwise Man (novel)|The Clockwise Man]]'') | ||