Developing and testing early motor cars proved difficult and Malvern's motoring pioneers were severely handicapped by social attitudes of the day. To have embarked on a journey upon the public highway in a machine such as Santler's 'Malvernia' would have subjected the brothers to an intolerable barrage of publicity, interference, ridicule, and no doubt even hostility, from townsfolk who couldn't possibly have witnessed such a remarkable and no doubt frightening machine before. The 'Malvernia' therefore was towed, in the guise of a horse-drawn trap, to a more isolated location, away from inquisitive eyes, for testing.
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