From time to time, not only the wheel has to be reinvented, but also the entire automobile. So in the early 1930s, the English airship designer Dennistoun Burney set about building the first completely newly developed car since the invention of the motor car - with a self-supporting streamlined body, rear engine and space for seven passengers. But the big breakthrough did not come. Only twelve examples of the Burney Streamline were built by 1933. This article tells the story of the first English streamlined car and shows it in historical photographs.