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Four years later the vehicle on the show stand at Paris was again a three wheel cycle car with a 1,850 mm (72.8 in) wheelbase and a single cylinder two-stroke engine, but the engine capacity was now given as 350cc. [3] Many of these little three-wheeler cyclecars used bodies adapted for use as small delivery vans. [1]
From 1898 to 1910, automobile production quickly expanded. Light cars of that era were commonly known as voiturettes.The smaller cyclecars appeared around 1910 with a sales boom shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, with Temple Press launching The Cyclecar magazine on 27 November 1912 (later renamed The Light Car and Cyclecar), and the formation of the Cyclecar Club (which later ...
A. Able (1920 automobile) Adamson (automobile) Societé d'Application Electro-Mécanique; Aero Car (1919 automobile) Ajams; Ajax (1913 automobile) Alcyon
C-A-C is a cycle car that was produced in Chicago, Illinois from 1914 to 1916. The cycle car cost $425 open roadster, while for $650 the buyer got a closed-body cycle car. The engine was a water-cooled 12 hp four-cylinder which ran on gas. [1]
The car's launch coincided with a "Petroleum/gasoline War" involving the competing commercial interests of the United States, Romania and other countries. France, having no indigenous oil supplies of its own, and the Algerian reserves not yet discovered, was particularly badly hit, and government exacerbated the challenge for the infant auto-industry with new car taxes. [1]
A. O. Smith developed the Smith Flyer with a fifth wheel, called the Smith Motor Wheel, driven by a gas engine. Manufactured in Lafayette, Indiana, by the American Motor Vehicle Company, from 1916 to 1919, A. O. Smith sold the rights to Briggs & Stratton who marketed the cyclecar as The Briggs & Stratton Flyer.
There was no gearbox. At first he had built the cars at his home but demand was sufficient to warrant moving to larger premises in Teddington in February 1914. [2] Carden cyclecar Carden cyclecar „Le Sylphe“ (1914) In October 1914 The Motor Cycle [3] reported on a Carden Monocar they had on trial. This vehicle (registration MXY1) was ...
The bodies formed a unitary construction with the chassis. The four seater cycle car was a rarity in the market. The wheelbase was 2438 mm. [1] [2] In 1914, the Gordon 9 hp replaced the initial model, still using the same engine but on short 2286 mm wheelbase. In 1914, a second new model, the Gordon 10 hp was introduced with a 1.35 litre engine.