T-Rex: The year was 1898, and Sherlock Holmes was walking down the street! He looked at a streetlamp, which was ELECTRIC. Hah!
T-Rex: I DID MY RESEARCH, BABIES!!
T-Rex: And then he crossed the road, which was MOSTLY HORSES! HAH HAH HAH!
T-Rex: But thanks to the Locomotives on Highways Act of 1896 - which lifted restrictions such as a 3 km/h speed limit whilst in towns and requiring a crew of three - cars were becoming more common. An engineer named Richard Stephens had both designed and built his own horseless carriage in 1897, just the previous year, in Somerset! But still, "auto-mobiles" were relatively rare, though electric cars WERE also represented!
Utahraptor: Now you've done too much research!
T-Rex: No way!
Utahraptor: Yes way!
Utahraptor: We've COMPLETELY lost Sherlock, and there's no crime either - all we've got are old British car facts! This isn't a Sherlock Holmes story, this is a research report!
T-Rex: Well, you just wait! There's about to be a crime REAL SOON!!
T-Rex: Suddenly, Sherlock detected a crime! It involved ??mile Zola - who'd fled to London as part of the ongoing fallout of the Dreyfus affair, which will now be explained in SIGNIFICANT detail.
Off panel: The CRIME, T-Rex!
T-Rex: THE CONTEXT, UTAHRAPTOR!!
