Penning to was half inventor, credited by some with the word Motorcycle, and balloon tires, he won patents for Stirling engines, ignition systems, wood planers, and some type of pulleys. But the other half of him was the PT Barnum school of promoter, earning him a reputation as a fraud.
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Pennington working in conjunction with Lawson attempted to design a car bearing his own name. Although payments were taken for orders of this design, apparently none were ever delivered. Journalists speculated that the car was a failure in design, and The Horseless Age remarked sarcastically that: "...the Pennington car, which is not a car, since it does not carry, but has to be carried..." was partly responsible for bad press about the automobile in general and Lawson's motor syndicate in England at the time
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