While only four were built, the two seat, one horsepower electric roadster that the press dubbed “the moon buggy” was the most popular automotive model on the planetary body on which it was designed to drive and one that, those who drove it say, changed everything.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.