Armstrong Petrol-Electric Hybrid

The Armstrong is the worlds first hybrid car gasoline and electric

It is brimming with innovative and sophisticated features not seen on other makes until decades later. For example: <ul> <li>electric starter</li> <li>electrically-operated decompression valves</li> <li>automatic ignition advance/retard</li> <li>electrically operated clutch</li> <li>semi-automatic transmission</li> <li>a steering wheel instead of a tiller</li> </ul> Despite such forward thinking and brilliant engineering the project was not commercially viable and the Armstrong Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut built just this one example.