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Highwheeler
A high wheeler is a car which uses large diameter wheels that are similar to those used by horse-drawn vehicles. These cars were produced until about 1915, predominantly in the United States. Design High wheelers were derived from horse-drawn wagons, and often were conversions of these. Similarly to these wagons, they often had wood-spoke wheels, suspensions, and boxy wooden bodies. The large-diameter slender wheels provided ample ground clearance on the primitive roads of the late 19th century, and frequently had solid rubber tires. These cars were produced in many body styles. The most common were the Wagon#Motorized wagons, motorized wagon (utility vehicle) Runabout (car), runabout, Roadster (automobile), roadster and Buggy (automobile), buggy, some with detachable tonneaus. File:International Torpedo - Coupe Florio 2015 01.jpg, International Harvester Auto-Buggy#Auto Buggy, International Harvester Auto-Buggy File:1911 International Wagon.JPG, 1911 International Harveste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Schaum
The De Schaum was an American automobile manufactured in Buffalo, New York from 1908 to 1909. The company offered a 7 hp High wheeler called the De Shaum and Seven Little Buffaloes. History William A. De Shaum was William A Shaum with a new name. After building the Schaum (manufacturer), Shaum automobile in Baltimore, he arrived in Buffalo in 1906 and built a high wheeler for C. Rossler Manufacturing Company. In 1908 he formed the De Shaum Motor Syndicate Company and began building a high-wheeler under his own name. High-wheeler sales were on the decline and for 1909 he renamed the De Shaum as the Seven Little Buffaloes. De Shaum was out of business before the end of the year and began a new venture in Hornell, New York in 1910. No cars were ever produced in Hornell and he left for Michigan where he formed a new De Shaum Motor Car Company and the Suburban (1911 automobile), Suburban Motor Car Company. External links The Con Man Who Started It All, W. A. Schaum Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Electric
Columbia was an American brand of automobiles produced by a group of companies in the United States. They included the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, the Electric Vehicle Company, and an entity of brief existence in 1899, the Columbia Automobile Company. In 1908, the company was renamed the Columbia Motor Car Company and in 1910 was acquired by United States Motor Company. A different Columbia Motors existed from 1917 to 1924. Electric models The 1904 'Columbia Brougham' was equipped with a tonneau. It could seat four passengers and sold for . Twin electric motors were situated at the rear of the car. Similar 'Columbia' coupes, 'Columbia Hansom' cabs, or hansoms, were also produced for the same price. They could achieve . A 'Columbia Victoria Phaeton' was priced at , but was based on the same design. The 'Columbia Surrey' and 'Columbia Victoria' were more traditional horseless carriages. Both used the same power system as the larger cars, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Motor Car Company
The Cole Motor Car Company was an early automobile maker based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Cole automobiles were built from 1908 until 1925. They were quality-built luxury cars. The make is a pioneer of the V8 engine. Early years Joseph J. Cole (1869–1925) made his first attempt to build a car in 1903 at Rockford, Illinois. Together with his son, he owned a shop where they sold wheels, automobiles, motor bikes, and even lawn mowers, and also performed mechanical repairs. Together they worked on a 4-cylinder touring car that was planned to be sold as the Rockford. The project went nowhere, and instead they opened a Rambler (automobile), Rambler automobile dealership. In 1904, Cole bought the Gates-Osborne Carriage Company and soon renamed it the Cole Carriage Company. There, he built his first automobile. It was a high wheeler, high-wheeled motor buggy with a two-cylinder engine. Legend goes that he forgot to fit brakes on this car and on his first trip, had to drive until t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckeye Manufacturing Company
The Buckeye Manufacturing Company was a company noted for manufacturing gasoline engines and farm implements. It manufactured the engines for its sister company, the Union Automobile Company. In time the Lambert founded automobile related subsidiary companies A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company. Unl ... such as the Union Automobile Company, the Lambert Automobile Company, and the Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company. Buckeye Manufacturing Company manufactured the components of the cars assembled by these subsidiaries. The company later produced automobiles and it continued until 1917. History A single Buckeye gasoline buggy automobile was built by the company in 1890, and offered for sale in 1891, though none were produced.US Department of Interior, National Park Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Motor Company
The Black was an American brass era automobile, built at 124 East Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois, in 1906. It was a high wheeler buggy priced at a US$375-$450, when Gale's Model A was $500, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout went for $650, and the Ford "Doctor's Car" was $850. The Black featured a 10 hp (7.5 kW) two-cylinder air-cooled gasoline Gasoline ( North American English) or petrol ( Commonwealth English) is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish, and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines. When for ... engine, chain drive, wheel steering and (unusual for the era) double brakes.Clymer, p.61. It bragged speeds of 2-25 mph (3.2–40 km/h) and mileage of 30mpg (12.75 L/100 km). Surreys and "top motor buggies" were also advertised. Black Crow and Chicago Motor Buggy From 1909 to 1911, Black sold a rebadged Crow-Elkhart automobile as the " Black Crow". In ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ă…tvidaberg (automobile)
The was a Swedish automobile manufactured from 1910 to 1911. began by importing an American Holsman high wheeler and using it as a pattern. The car used a flat-twin engine; its top speed was about . Some of the later engines had four cylinders. The gearbox A transmission (also called a gearbox) is a mechanical device invented by Louis Renault (who founded Renault) which uses a gear set—two or more gears working together—to change the speed, direction of rotation, or torque multiplication/r ... was two-speed, and the entire engine was slid backwards under the frame to engage reverse. 35 cars were planned, of which 12 were built, the rest converted for use in railway inspection. References * Dept of Transportation, Stockholm, Sweden. Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Sweden Goods manufactured in Sweden Highwheeler Cars introduced in 1910 Cars discontinued in 1911 1910 establishments in Sweden 1910s disestablishments in Sweden 20th-century establishments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchor Buggy
The Anchor Buggy Company was an American carriage manufacturer in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1886 to 1917. After 1917, it operated as the Anchor Top and Body Company till 1927. The Anchor Carriage Company also had a short-lived automotive branch called the Anchor Motor Car Company (1910–1911). History Anchor Buggy Co. The Anchor Buggy Co. was founded between 1886 and 1887 by Alfred F. Klausmeyer and Anthony G. Brunsman, two former employees of Anderson & Harris Carriage Co. Herman H. Uckotter was an inventor for the company, who invented a steering device called "the fifth wheel". The company had successfully applied a new principle in fifth wheels and attachments for carriages, with the gear being known to the trade as the "patent anchor fifth wheel and king-bolt". Anchor was one of the largest carriage building companies in the region, and at its peak in 1897, manufactured 125 buggies, surreys and phaetons a day. In later years, Anchor shared its production line with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC (1906 Automobile)
ABC was an American high wheeler automobile built by Albert Bledsoe Cole in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, from 1905 to 1910. Known as the ''Autobuggy''Not to be confused with the ''Auto-Buggy'' that was made by Success Automobile Manufacturing Company. from 1906 to 1908, it was sold as "the cheapest high-grade car in America", and was available with two-cylinder and four-cylinder engines, friction drive, and pneumatic Pneumatics (from Greek 'wind, breath') is the use of gas or pressurized air in mechanical systems. Pneumatic systems used in Industrial sector, industry are commonly powered by compressed air or compressed inert gases. A centrally located a ... or solid tires. The drive system used a cone and two bevel wheels, one for forward and the other for reverse. This allowed it to reach its top speed in either direction. A larger engine was fitted in 1908, and the wheelbase grew from to . Its high ground clearance made it popular in rural areas. Later models wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Motor Car Works
Lincoln Motor Car Works was an automobile company in Chicago, Illinois. It produced cars for Sears Roebuck from 1908 until 1912. History Lincoln Motor Car Works built a high-wheeler brass era automobile that was sold through the Sears Catalog. In 1912 the Sears arrangement ended and Lincoln sold the identical car as the Lincoln Model 24 Runabout. For 1913 Lincoln offered a Light Touring car, however production ended later that year. Models Nine models were offered, priced between US$325 and $475, with the Model L advertised at $495 complete. They were sold by mail, out of the Sears catalog. Sears had a very lenient return policy: cars were sold on a ten-day trial basis. The cars had an air-cooled, two-cylinder, horizontally opposed engine, similar to that later used on BMW motorcycles. The engine was located under the floorboards, beneath the driver’s feet, and started from a hand crank in the front. Early cars were rated at 10 hp, and later models developed 14&nbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duryea Motor Wagon
The Duryea Motor Wagon was among the first standardized automobiles and among the first powered by gasoline. Fifteen examples were built by the Duryea Motor Wagon Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts, between 1893 and 1896. Their enterprise followed the first commercially available automobile which was patented by Karl Benz on January 29, 1886, and put into production in 1888. To construct the first Duryea Motor Wagon, the brothers had purchased a used horse-drawn buggy for $70 and then installed a , single cylinder gasoline engine. The car had a friction transmission, spray carburetor, and low tension ignition. It was road-tested again on 10 November, when the newspaper '' The Springfield Republican'' made the announcement. The car was put into storage in 1894 and stayed there until 1920 when it was rescued by Inglis M. Uppercu and presented to the United States National Museum. The Duryea Motor Wagon remained in production until 1917. The Duryea brothers entered their horsele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippomobile
The Hippomobile is an early, three wheeled automobile invented by Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir in France in 1863 which carried its own internal combustion engine. It was based on his 1860 invention, the Lenoir gas engine. History In 1863, the Hippomobile, with a coal gas fueled, one-cylinder internal combustion engine, made a test drive from Paris, France Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ... to Joinville-le-Pont, which covered around eleven miles in less than three hours, which was a fair achievement at the time. See also * History of the internal combustion engine * Motorized wagons * Timeline of transportation technology References External links ''Engine Maturity, Efficiency, and Potential Improvements'' US Dept of Energy, Washington, page 7 1860s cars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best Manufacturing Company
The Best Manufacturing Company (sometimes known as the ''Daniel Best Company'') of San Leandro, California was a manufacturer of farm machinery, known for its steam tractors. History The company was formed in 1871 by Daniel Best. The company's initial product was a portable grain cleaner, soon followed by a combine harvester. In 1890, the company purchased the rights to manufacture the Remington steam engine, and produced a range of steam-driven farm machinery, including steam tractors and combine harvesters. In 1891, the company built a gasoline powered locomotive for San Jose and Alum Rock Railroad. This was the first internal combustion locomotive built in the western United States, though it was only a limited success and was returned to Best in 1892. Around 1900 the company built a number of three wheeled road locomotives. The company was acquired by the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1908 after a legal battle. C. L. Best, the son of the founder then formed his own riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
