Frederick Royce News Today

The seller of an 1895 castle in Kalamazoo said its next owner will get a packaged deal including several thriving businesses and, perhaps, a pair of benevolent ghosts.

If a solar storm as big as the Carrington Event struck today, it could lead to years long power outages.

In Britain Herbert Austin, works manager of the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Co, built the first of the Wolseley cars in 1896. Britain had been slow to adopt the concept of the motor car, partly because of the strong lobby from the railways and partly because legislation until 1896 had limited the speed of powered vehicles to 4mph in the countryside and 2mph in towns. In 1896 the limit was raised to 14mph and in 1903 to 20mph. Frederick Henry Royce was born in 1863. His father’s m...