There were approximately manufacturers in the state from There are about different manufactures listed with one or two with no pictures. When this research was first started, there was some information on a few manufacturers, but as a whole, very little could be found.

It has been fascinating researching for these automobiles. As far as I know, there is no other web site that has photos of all the cars built in a state. While perusing this page you will notice that some advertisements will have different locations than the actual address of the manufacturers.

A lot of small manufactures hired companies or set up a company to do the advertising and sales. Within such a very short period of time, technology, such as the internet and especially Google, has given us the means to do a thorough research concerning antique automobiles. Great personal help has been given to me by John Bartley, Watertown, MA; and Walter Barrett, Dedham, MA. Historical Societies include Beverly, Stoneham, Danvers, and Waltham. Libraries include Amesbury, Stoneham, and Danvers.

Berry of Easton, MA is a major contributor to this page. His help in research and his knowledge of Massachusetts made automobiles has been immensely helpful. In Margaret Rice's book, "Sun on the River", the Bailey Family History,she states that when Col. It was a Bailey Electric Victoria Phaeton. His son stood there looking at what he called the most beautiful car that he had ever seen. He wanted to take it for a spin, but his father said that the weight of the battery was too much for the motor and had to wait for a lighter battery.

With Bailey's help, Thomas Edison had finally made the ideal battery. Bailey kept experimenting with his car until he put into production in By the tremendous cost of the experiments, he had depleted his finances and had to incorporate his company.

It was now S. This was the first car built in Amesbury. An date was also mentioned in the Britannica Enclopedia. The model had the common tiller that was used on the model.

Bailey First model with wheel steering. There was no difference between the models. This is the only picture of this car and was cut from the Motor World Magazine Roadster This car was exibited in the New York Automobile Show and was in the Henry Ford Museum. They had a ladder attachment on the hood and tool box on the rear. What is shown here is only a portion of the Bailey Electrics. For the most comphrensive history of the S.

Early init was revealed that Essex had contracted with the Bailey Carriage Company of Amesbury, one of the largest carriage manufacturing plants in New England, for the building of the Essex. There were not many made before it went under. There are no pictures known of the Essex.

The photograph is a picture of the French Serpoliet, the only one in existence. Copied in full from Beverly Rae Kimes Standard Catalog of American Cars published in At the turn of the century, Amesbury was among the leading carriage manufacturing centers in the United States.

Involved in the venture were a number of local carriage builders, including J. Worthen, and Edward R. The chief engineer was C. Bagley, a well known electrician in town, who had designed an electric motor which was claimed to be the lightest and most efficient appliance yet built. Prospects bode well for this venture. InArthur England, a machinst, built an automobile and he displayed it in his father's machine shop. In Briggs Carriage Company joined with Currier, Cameron, and company making automobile bodies.

In Augusta company was formed in Amesbury, Mass. M Monroe, but nothing happened. Boston and Amesbury Boston and Amesbury Mfg. A Spiller to form the Boston and Amesbury Mfg. Spiller made the engine and Miller made the body with the Shields Carriage Co. It was a two passenger Stanhope with two passenger provided with an extra seat stored under the main one. When needed, it could be removed and attached to the front of the vehicle. The company propose building gasoline carriages in three styles, a two cylinder 4x4 inches, 8 horse power; a two cylinder 5x5 inches.

The smaller size is herewith illustrated. Everything will be manufactured in the company's own shops except the Baldwin chains and the International Endurance tires. Crown Motor Vehicle Co. The officers are W. Shafer, President; Frank Dodge, Treasurer; W.

They were to be shown at the following Boston Automobile Show. Very few were made before shutting down in The Ultra Motor Car Company was established in Amesbury in and a prototype of its new car was completed in the shops of Howarth and Rogers Company that October. Randall, the Ultra was a 38 horse power six, fitted with a four speed selective transmission and set on a inch wheel base chassis.

The body was an entirely Amesbury production. It had sporty wire wheels. The first moodel built was a demonstrator in and around Boston in an attempt to raise financing. In late November, the Ultra Motor Car Company anouunced plans to relocate in Taunton. It is unknown if the relocation took place or how many cars were built. There were three known to have been registered in Boston. Francis Curtis was the superintendent of the Gas Works in Newburyport and inhe invented a steam engine which was attached to a piece of fire fighting equipment.

Nehemiah Bean, designer of the Amoskeag fire engine sat next to Curtis on its initial run and it may be that his engine was used in the Famous Amoskeag Fire Wagon. He built a steam passenger carrriage the following year built to the specifications of an unnamed client. The boiler was made by the Whittier Machine Works and was placed in front of the seat with a coal box at the rear.

The water tank was 20 gallons and and coal capacity was 80 pounds. The steam pressure reached 40 to 45 pounds. The longest run between water stops was 9 miles in 26 minutes. When the owner failed to pay, Francis Curtis took back his steamer. This had to be the first repossion in American history. There was another first.

During the testing period before delivering to his client, the Curtis aroused the wrath of his neighbors, one of whom swore out a warrant for his arrest. When the officer arrived, Curtis left in his car with the officer in hot pursuit on foot, The first getaway by car in American history. Curtis had difficulty convincing the Newburyport City Council the wisdom of steam power and he was never able to build another steam power automobile in town.

The Bradford Bus was built in on Market Street by Frank and Gerald Bradford. Its engine was cast at Russell's Foundry in Newburyport. It was used primarily between Plum Island and Newburyport. Because of overheating, its original air cooled engine was replaced by a larger water cooled one.

They were named Whitney-Stanley and they were runabouts built with or with a canopy top for two persons. However, by lowering the backboard for a foot rest, four passengers could be accomodated. The car weighed pounds. The engine was was two cylinders, the water tank held 23 gallons, and the gasoline tank held 8 gallons ennough for 90 miles with an average speed of 12 mph, or if desired a higher speed could be obtained. The Whitney-Stanley automobiles were superior in construction that the former Whitneys.

American Populaire American Automobile Power Co. The wheels were Weston-Mott 28" artillery type with three inch tires. The wheel base was 84 inches with a 56 inch tread and the weight was pounds. The springs were double elliptic and the frame was made of steel angle and could carry a 2, pound load.

The steering used a Brown-Lipe worm gear with a tilting wheel and the spur differential was also made by Brown-Lipe. A pedal was used for braking and the emergency brake was lever operated that acted on a drum on the gear shaft.

It was water cooled and the five gallon tank attached to the frame near the rear. The six gallon gasoline tank was under the front seat. The ignition was jump start. The speed was controlled by levers on the steering head and the head controlling the carbburator.

A leather lined cone clutch, with pedal release, connects the engine to the sliding gear change speed device within an oil tight case attached to the vehicle frame. It had three forward speeds and a reverse. Transmission to the rear axle is by chain and sprocket.

One unusual feature was that the driver's seat could be tilted forward to allow passengers to enter, doing away with the rear entrance method. The tonneau could seat three and was detachable.

The Edison electric truck is built by the Edison Electric Vehicle Co. All of these are built with either side chain or shaft and worm gear drive. They carry Edison batteries and use General Electric or Westinghouse motors. The 1,pound vehicle has a speed of 12 miles per hour, and a mileage radius of The load-carrying space measures 3 feet b inches in width and is 6 feet long.

This delivery vehicle is designed for such trades as grocers, butchers, bakers, laundries and department stores. The 2,pound wagon has a mileage of 6O-mile per battery charge, and a speed of 4 to 12 miles per hour.

It has four for- ward speeds and three reverse. The 3, pound vehicle is suitable for express work, and industries needing this capacity. Lowell-American Lowell-American Automobile Co. Lowell Automotor Lowell Model Co. Only the running gear was offered in kit form. Maybe it was put together to see if it could run. The firm of Waterman and Chamberlain produced a small engine runabout powered by a Crest Duplex motor mounted under the seat. Everything about the car was typical of the ingenious automobile construction of the day, with one exception; the power was transferred to rear wheels through a special gear of their own invention allowing the engine free of running the vehicle.

It did not survive the year. The three wheeler was destroyed ia a fire inthe year of his death. It had a one cylinder engine located under the seat beside a thirty gallon water tank and a ten gallon gasoline tank for the burner.

Engine power was transmitted by chain to a sprocket on the rear axle near by the left wheel. The brake was also on the rear axle by the right wheel. The steering was by a tiller. It could reach a speed of 35 miles per hour. Two passengers could sit in front of the driver with the front lid lowered for a foot rest. The frame was made of tubular steel with a 60 inch wheel base and 30 inch wheels. The engine was a Locke invention and the boiler was a tubular super heating type that could produce pounds of pressure heated by a gasoline burner.

The water tank held 32 gallons and the gas tank, placed forward, held 16 gallons, enough water and gasoline for miles. The speed could reach 20 mph and the engine was rated at 6 horse power. It weighed pounds. In Locke built parts to be sold separately.

A customer could purchase individual components or a complete chassis. InLevi Flagg and William Taft, a former promoter of his Taft steamer, decided to build an electric car, but finding that it was too expensive, they decided to build a gasoline car instead. Flagg offered his hen house as the place to set up shop. It had a friction transmision as well as a center mounted steering wheel for either right or left handed drivers. The date is unknown for its first sale, but bythey moved from the hen house to a cement block building in the center of town.

Shortly thereafter, Taft left the company, but Flagg continued building the Climax until threatened by bankruptcy in The business had been selling air cooled engines to the trade and had been sold in 38 states.

Soon thereafter, the name was changed to T and F Cycle Car Company, but no complete vehicles were sold under that name. Essex Essex Automobile and Supply Company It used an Upton direct transmission and final drive by chain and sprocket. A year later it was moved to Lynn and did not survive the year. Hill Hill Motor Car Company Hill owned the Hill Automobile Company in Haverhill and inhe had Gilman Brown, a machinest in West Newbury build a prototpe for him.

THe body was was a close reemblance of the French Serpollet. It was a five passenger touring car with a side entrance tonneau, fitted with a patented air cooling two cylinder engine of the opposed motor type.

The air cooling device was made of aluminum pins, invented by George Hill, generated to dispose of the heat in a remarkedly quick time. Inside a large balance wheel, which housed a fan arrangement. This method prevented the use of the more complicated fan separated from the rest of the machinery. It had a horsepower engine, sliding bevel gear transmission, three forward speed and a reverse gear. The direct shaft and machinery was encased in a water tight aluminum compartment and in a bath of oil.

It was compact and the best method of any type for the period. His patented engines were built by Upton Motor Company in Beverly, MA. Inafter buildind, ten cars, he wanted ti exand his business, but financial help was not forthcoming, so he sod his business to Elmer Basset who kept the name but became a Maxwell and Buick dealership.

In Hadden Sheply's book on Automobiles Made in Essex County, the description states that Mrs. George Hill said that the body was made by Bryant Body Company of Amesbury.

This same information was repeated in Beverly Kimes's book "Standard Catalogue of American Cars, Rand and Bryant had been building carriages since in Amesbury. The burner uses kerosene rather than gasoline. Suposedly, kerosene was 25 percent more productive than gasoline. The pilot light was started by alcohol and rapidly heats the kerosene to cause gasification that started the main boiler.

The kerosene was heated by traveling through the boiler giving it a lower firing temperature. The wheels were 30 inches in diameter, the wheel base was 62 inches and the tread was standard.

Its weight was 1, pounds. The kerosene tank held 14 gallons and the water tank had a capacity of 38 gallons. The chassis was the tubular type with double elliptic springs. It used a Mason engine and the boiler was made by the Eclipse Co. The automobile design was made for easy and convenient control of power.

The lever was used which operated a steering column that raised close to the seat between the two occupants so either one could easily steer the vehicle.

Directly behind the steering column were located the throttle and bypass controls. The auxillary hand pump lever was to the right of the operator and was large and convenient design. On the footboard in front of the operator were the reverse and brake pedals as well as the cylinder oil pump.

The continuous mud guards gave the vehicle a superior look. Everitt Cameron grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts, and started learning the machinist's trade at an early age.

At that time the bicycle business was enjoying a boom and bicycle racing was very popular. Having developed an interest in the sport, Cameron built a special racing bicycle weighing twenty-one pounds less than the conventional type which weighed thirty-nine pounds. The result was so good that Mr. Cameron continued in the bicycle business for the next two years. Inhowever, he became interested in the future possibilities of the horseless carriage and built his first steam car.

Two cars of this type were used by the Back Bay Post Office of Boston to collect mail, and it is believed that these were the first automobiles used by the Post Office department. Becoming annoyed with the dirty, exposed chain of the models, he built his first drive shaft car in The engine was a three cylinder radial steam engine, mounted on the end of the drive shaft and hinged to the body.

Although twenty-five of these machines were built, he felt that there was no future to steam as a power plant for automobiles. Inhe sold his interest in the Eclipse Company, went to Taunton and built the Taunton Steam Runabout.

He got tired of steam cars and inhe started working with gasoline and developed the Cameron Automobile. He had Brown Machinery Company in Pawtucket, RI build his automomobile until when the Brown Machinery Co. He then acquired the recently vacated Beverly automobile factory building in Beverly. Morse Easton Machine Co The only rear engine Morse built and is still extant in Easton. Full elliptic springs in front and rear.

It had a jump spark ignition with a Eiseman high tension magneto and batteries. The transmission had 4 forward speeds and reverse with direct drive to third and geared up to fourth. The 25 gallon copper gas tank was suspended from the rear. An extra large tonneau allowed for extra seating. It was provided with a foot rail, coat rail, and pockets. It came fully equiped with horn, two front lights and two side lights, spare tires, complete repair accessories, and tool boxes with tools. The body builder was W.

Judkins and Co of Merrimac, MA, which was one of the best body builders in the trade. The company could not fully recover and it was shut down in Thus went one of the superior automobiles of its time.

The list of exhibitors promised two new cars, one of which was to be the Anderson, but through some inadvertence it failed to develop on time, and section No. The Morse car, however, which is made by the Easton Machine Company, South Easton, Mass. The photograph of this car, which will be found among the especially noted features of the show, presents a chassis in the foreground, which has all the earmarks of satisfying quality.

Marsh Marsh Motor Carriage Co. Three cars were built before quitting the automobile and started making their Marsh Motor Cycle. Copied from the Automotive Industries reflecting the earlier automobile years. Mile Road Record, 1. The fastest mile ever ridden over a highway in a vehicle was made yesterday afternoon on the State highway at Whitman, by the motor vehicle built and owned by the Marsh brothers of this city.

The time for a warming up mile was made in 1 min. Marsh opened the throttle suddenly and the vehicle, with its lb. Immediately after this performance a mile was made in 1 min. Charles Metz maker of the Metz motorcycles in Waltham merged with the Marsh brothers in All motorcycles woud be built in Brockton under the name "American Car Co.

The two cylinders were cast separately, cylinder and head in one piece. The engine was supported on the frame by means of two drop braces and could be removed from the car. InBrown Machinery Mfg. No cars were built in Pickard Pickard Brothers Inthe Pickard brothers, Emil J. They built their first car inpowered by a single cylinder 5 horse power engine and road tested it for four years before deciding to put it into production.

The production Picard was powered by a 4 cylinder air cooled engine with a sliding gear transmission and shaft drive. The brakes were lined with camel hair. For lack of local support the production finally ceased in Advertising for the Runabout Advertisement Roader Roader Car Co. The Roader was named after the term used for a fast horse. No one knows just how fast the Roader automobile was. It was made only as a roadster with a dropped frame, sliding gear transmission and a round gasoline tank fitted behind the seat.

It was made in for the models with either a 20 or 30 horese power engine. It ceased operation that year. The Upton Machine Company was an American Automobile and transmission manufacturer in Beverly, Massachusetts. The Upton Machine Co. Goodrich was president, William J. Murray was secretary and Colcord Upton was vice-president and general manager. The Upton was named after it's general manager. The first Upton was a light Runabout equipped with a single cylinder horsepower engine, chain drive to a two speed transmission and then a single chain drive to the rear axle.

Following article was copied from the Horseless Age Magazine. The company has temporarily withdrawn the delivery wagon from service for the purpose of making certain alterations upon it which have been suggested by experience.

The firm express themselves as very much pleased with the performance of this wagon, which will be restored to its regular work as soon as work is completed upon it and the two other similar vehicles which are being constructed for their use. The Upton Machine Company state that they are at work on a new tonneau machine which will have a four cylinder upright motor and a specially designed Upton gear. The Upton Company has also in hand some auto trucks to carry 5 to 8 tons each, but for the present they are confining themselves.

After several years' experience in building transmission gears and gasoline motors, the Upton Machine Company, of Beverly, Ma. The workmanship, material, design and finish of the car compared favorably with any high grade car on the market. It had Jump start ignition. It carried enough gasoline for a miles Steering is accomplished by wheel and worm gear. Connecting rods of crucible steel, cylinders bored and ground, and pistons fitted with three lapped rings, to insure the highest compression; splash and mechanical lubrication.

The valves are readily accessible for inspection or replacement. Transmission is direct to the compensating gear, on the cross shaft, from the ends of which are sprockets, driving to the rear wheels. It had a 90 inch wheel base, tread was 57 inches. Wood artillery wheels were 32 inches and equipped with four inch clincher tires.

The rear wheels were equipped with double acting brake drums operated by a foot lever. The Upton weigh in at 2, pounds. The Upton Transmission shown below had two speeds forward and reverse. Final drive was by a chain and a tranverse differential. Copied from the Motor Magazine. It was exhibited at the Boston Automobile Show. The Beverley touring car shown and made by the Upton Machine Company was without doubt one of the prettiest and at the same time one of the most serviceable seen in the exhibition.

The Upton Machine Company has spent a great deal of time and energy in endeavoring to furnish a car which would prove first-class in every respect, and from the tests made and the results obtained their efforts have proved successful.

It has an aluminum body and tonneau of the latest type, fitted with canopy top, side curtains, glass front, and has seating capacity for five persons. The frame is 3- inch channel steel, continuous cross braces of either channel or angle, riveted or bolted, the tires are in. The crank shaft is of high grade steel forging and the connecting rods are crucible steel forgings. The cylinders are cast separately, bored and ground.

The valves are mechanically operated, located one above the other, and are easy of access. The ignition is of the make-and-break method operated by cams controlled by a lever on the steering wheel post The transmission gear has two forward and one reverse speeds, but owing to the control of the motor slow speed Is required only in starting.

There is tankage for gasoline for miles. The wheel base is inch and tread inch. One particular feature Is the method of swinging the gas head-lights with the forward wheels so that the light is directly ahead at all times. Although the reason is not known for certain, disagreement with his associates is a safe guess, because he took his name with him. In the Upton Machine Company in Massachusetts revised the Upton car and renamed it the Beverly, which survived up to In the fall ofColcord Upton and Milton H.

Schnader decided to manufacture automobiles Lebanon, PA. The name Upton was chosen in part because the Upton Machine Company The Beverly Mfg.

For those who are not familiar with the history of the Cameron Car Company, here is a brief version. Everitt Cameron, a native of Brockton, was a bicycle-racing enthusiast who, inmanufactured a bicycle that weighed only nine pounds. It was very popular and in great demand. He was also a believer in the steam automobile and inhe and several investors produced the Eclipse Steamer made in South Easton, MA. After two years, he sold his interest in the Eclipse automobile and put into production the Taunton Steamer in Taunton, MA.

He soon lost interest in the steam cars and inhe made the Cameron gasoline car. The Cameron car was first made by the Brown Machine Company in Pawtucket, RI. The Cameron Automobile Company has been a difficult company to unravel its existence. Every reference that I have come across has it being moved from city to city, but I have found tha it had factories in other cities making the different models, but the main factory was moved three times.

From toit was being made in Pawtucket, RI by Brown Machine Co. Inaccording to an article in the Horseless Age Magazine, Brown Machine Company wrote that it was no longer making automobiles, so the Cameron Company moved to Brockton. It was made in Brockton, MA from Beverly remained the company's headquarters from During this period, the Cameron cars were being made in New London CT and Attica, OH.

Inthe Beverly factory was moved to West Haven, CT. The advertisements prove this. Copied from the January issue of the Horseless Age Magazine. The Cameron Motor Car Company, of Brockton, Mass. The Beverly Manufacturing Company, of Beverly, Mass. Randolph, trustee, conveying to the latter all the real and personal property of the company. The mortgage is further secured by royalties on all cars and other machines manufactured, and the notes which mature first and which represent the debts for material should all be extinguished before July 1, The model manufactured by the Cameron Car Company was a light four cylinder air cooled car.

The frame was made of oak held together by angle irons. It rested on ecliptic 36" springs front and rear. The runabout had an 86" wheel base and the touring's wheel base 98". The front axlewas bronze with integral steering forks and the rear axle was a tubular floating type with ball bearings.

Steering is by wheel on a column and a pinion and internal device. The engine was the same four cylinder air cooled horse power as used in previous models. The stated weight of the four passenger car is 1, pounds, fully equipped. This is the only advertisement showing that the Cameron was being built in Beverly, MA and New London, CT at the same time.

Earnest Johnson knew his cars. His former car was made up of anything and everything. He must have known what he was doing for it is believed that is still around.

The following paragraph was taken from the September,issue of the Horseless Age Magazine. The Phelps Motor Company have begun the manufacture of gasoline automobiles at Stoneham, Mass. The factory of the company is located on Tidd and Pine streets and has 40, square feet of floor space.

The was a three cylinder, twenty horse power side entrance tonneau rear seat. The engine is mounted in front on a special spring and connected to the transmission case and rear axle housing by a large tubular construction within which the drive shaft is carried.

This method is supposed to eliminate some loss of power for it is believed that vertical engines rigidly mounted to the frame looses power when changig speeds. This is a feature construction of the Phelps. It had an individual clutch transmission and used a bevel gear drive furnishing three forward speeds and the whole construction was fully enclosed.

The Phelps was unusual because the whole body could be raised using the rear axle as a pivot. By using this method, the entire chassis became accessible for repairs and normal maintenance. Phelps built their own engines. In an article of the March, issue of the Horseless Age Magazine, the Phelps was one of the automobiles that was mentioned by name as a standout of workmanship.

It drew a considerable amount of attention from the visitors and press. This was one fine automobile! The motor is up front on a heavy duty spring. The housing of the Cardan drive shaft is a large tube which connects the rear axle gear box and engine crank case.

By using this, the whole motive power plant is rendered as an integral unit and as the tube preserves a constant relation between engine and axle eliminates the use of universal joints. The body frame is made of ash with 41" elipitic springs on front and rear axles. Steering is by wheel and the column which has a gear arrangement so it can be tilted in any direction without losing control of the vehicle.

Lever on the column is for three speeds forward. Two pedals are on the floor; one is for braking and the other is for reverse.

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A thirteen gallon gas tank is located on the back of the front seat. There is a large storage space under the tonneau, which can be lifted, that has space for a wheel tire, and extra tools. The electrical equipment, under the front seat, consist of three four-cell batteries.

One battery is not conected and can be used as a spare. The wheel base is " with horsepower. There are no exposed parts on the engine. There are removeable panels for easy access to any part. March Boston Automobile and Boat barclays stockbrokers demo login Copied from the Motor Way Magazine.

The Phelps car, which established the first Commonwealth Avenue hillclimbing- record cash earners later secured records upon Eagle Rock, in New Jersey, is being displayed by the Phelps Motor Vehicle Company, of Stoneham. The car displayed is of the three-cylinder type, but they are now working on a four-cylinder model. The construction of the three-cylinder engine is similar to that of last year's machine, with modifications.

In the summer ofPhelps gave notice of his retirement from automobiles and engine building. Without Phelps, there was no automobile. Some records suggest that the Shawmut was just an extension of the Phelps.

The Shawmut Motorcar Company moved into the vacant Phelps Automobile Company in November The Model 6, which was equipped with a four cylinder upright water cooled horsepower engine, was exibited in the Boston Automobile Show.

It was fitted with a wood and aluminum body designed by Chauncey Thomas and Company of Boston. Symphony Hall captured the exhibit, which was at all times during show hours a strong center of attraction as the car is of local manufacture, being built by the Shawmut Motor Co. One model of the servicenow stock options is shown together with a display of rough and finished parts.

Its appearance is one of solidity and strength united with a fine regard for style and finish. The power plant is almost a replica of the Panhard type, with some modifications. The crankshaft has the five ball bearing supports. The extra bearings are placed immediately between the bases of the cylinders in both the front and rear sections of the crankcase.

Four ball bearings also support the camshaft. The transmission is of the straight sliding type, with reverse effected by a single gear and cam. The flywheel, which is 22 inches in diameter, has specially designed blades and makes a very effective fan.

Make-and-break ignition is furnished unless otherwise ordered. All gears are planed from hammer forged nickel steel and toughened by a special annealing process. The carburetor used a float feed type, water jacketed, and provided with a piston throttle valve. Stock market bse satyam computers is fed with gasoline from a 24 gallon tank under steam guard 15 days trade bypass front seat.

The radiator held three gallons of water including the pipes. It was circulated by a centrifugal pump driven by spur gears from the cam shaft. The ignition is ordinarily the make or break or low tension spark. The transmision or change speed gear is of the sliding pinion type, affording four forward speeds and one reverse.

The 32" artillery type wheels had nickle steel hubs with twelve hickory spokes. The frame was built of cold rolled pressed steel members. The automobiles that were built were for company use only. They were some of the best built automobiles of its time. Rice convinced them to design and built. They specified that the most up to date principals of construction plus other features should be recognized and this would certainly advance the electric automobile as a sound commericial proposition.

The actual construction began in March and it was on the streets of Lynn on Third of July. It could carry eight persons at a speed at mph with a radius of 20 miles. The chassis was steel tubing. The wheel base was 72 inches with a 60 inch tread and its weight was pounds.

Forty 60 amps made by The Electric Storage Battery Company were arranged in four compartments of ten cells each. Thes compartments were supported on rollers with the terminals of the batteries making automatic contact with the motor circuit. The batteries could br charged by opening a trap door, retrieving the cable, and hooking it to a charging terminal.

The tiller was used for steering and was provided with the Lemp hydraulic steering check, installed between front wheel knuckles and the steering post and handle.

It protected the driver from road shocks. Arthur Stanley had been a long time employee of General Electric in Lynn and was calendar forex peace army foreman in charge of the expiermental cars built there at the turn of the century, when he decided to build a steam car named for himself in By early summer he was driving it along Revere Beach Boulevard at speeds up to 70 mph.

He eventually had driven the car overmiles. His car was more efficient than some of the best at the time. Clarence Simmonds was an employee at the Lynn Gas and Electric Company in Lynn during the year he built his steam car. It had a 2 cylinder vertical engine, using naptha as fuel for the burner and featured a porpupine type boiler.

It took only 5 minutes to get the proper amount of steam to reach top speed of 10 mph. He received permission to drive his car certain hours to and from work. A group of promotors bought his car for promotional purposes. It is said that he was very friendly with the Stanley brothers.

He never built another car. The company was incorporated inbut made its first car in Another one was made in Invented by Ralph Hood of Danvers.

The engine and boiler were revoluntionary wherein the engine and boiler were single castings. The engine had four single acting cylinders. Intake pepit valved were magnet and were operated by three dry cell batteries. These valves allowed only a jet of steam into the cylinders thus saving water.

It could run for fifty miles without refilling. Vaughn Vaughn Machine Co. One car was built that had a 24 horse power motor. Shown at the Boston Automobile and Boat Australian dollar currency rate in pakistan. When this car was shown at the Boston Automobile and Motor Boat by the Corwin Mfg.

It caused a sensation! The Gas-Au-Lec was the first gasoline automobile that could be started without cranking and could be operated without speed controls. It was the first self-starting car in America. Designed by Otto Hood who had prviously built the Simplex Automobile in Danvers. The engine was built by Brown and Balch in Salem. A belt from a direct current motor to the flywheel was used for starting. The forward placed engine drove directly to the rear axle through a drive shaf tthat had two universals.

No clutch was needed. An electric motor generator was placed just behind and to the left of the engine. A 20 cell storage battery was hung from the frame below the body that furnished current to drive the motor generator and move the car at slower speeds that could be maintained by the engine.

At higher speeds, the motor generator became a generator driven by the engine recharging the battery and stored energy for future use. At higher speeds, the magnetic governor clutch on the armature shaft oppened the electrical connection between the generator and the battery and also released the pinion on the armature shaft permitting the pinion to revolve idly without turning the armature.

The entire control of the car was by two pedals, one operating the brakes and the other controlling the motive power and regulating the speed of the car forward or backward.

When the control pedal was pushed forward into its first position, the motor-generator started, moving the car forward and at the steam guard 15 days trade bypass time turning over, the valves being held off their seats by magnets. Still another forward movement of the pedal forward as far as it would go, the throttle advanced the spark and the vehicle would reach full speed.

There was no perception of the switching from electrical to gasoline in traffic. Bracking was achieved by pushing the brake pedal forward to engage a pair of expanding ring brakes on the rear wheels brake drums.

For more braking, the pedal was pushed forward to engage a brake drum on the engine flywheel. Reverse speed was also done by this method. This was a very successful design except the motor after several uses overheated and charred the wiring causing short circuits. The company owners wanted a mechanical cam shaft to drive the valves, but Hood would not do so.

By his not doing so, the financing was not forthcoming and the car was abanoned. Hood started developing the Otho automobile. During this time, the Corwin Company had been making Buick engines and Coulthard trucks.

They continued to do so. The Corwin Manufacturing Company, of How to make kinah in aion, Mass. The fuel is coal and the engine is rated at 35 horse power. Two gears are employed.

On the high gear the e: Bodies of any required design are furnished to meet special requirements. The National Auto Transfer Company, Fred H. Adams manager, on Monday July 31, started an automobile service between Gloucester and Magnolia, Mass. Seven round trips are made daily, the starting times from Gloucester being 9, II, I, 3, 5, 7 and 9 o'clock, and the starting times from Magnolia 10, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 o'clock.

The round trip is 9 miles, and as seven round trips are made daily the total distance covered in a day is 63 miles. A system for the control of drivers has been established after careful thought by Mr. Adams, which enables both company and driver "to get all that is coming to them," according to which the driver must make a daily report on the number of passengers conveyed, cash received, gasoline and oil consumption, repairs made and parts renewed.

The driver is furnished with a rebate book, one-half of which is the operator's stub, from which he collects his commission, and the other half the passenger's rebate check. The latter half reads as follows: Maddocks, Main street. Gloucester, or at the office of the New Magnolia Hotel, Magnolia, Mass. The stub book is intended to avoid any possible misunderstanding between driver and company, and is a safeguard for both driver and company. Five other routes will be established next spring in the same territory, ranging in length from 9 to 20 miles for the round trip.

Eight to ten special cars, seating from ten to sixteen passengers, will be built, using self-starting electric devices, and other conveniences for the safety and comfort of passengers. The cars will be built by the Corwin Manufacturing Company, Peabody, Mass.

There will be a dtk-forex of thirty minutes at each end of the route, giving the operator time to look over his car.

The running time over the Gloucester-Magnolia route is thirty minutes. Ipswich Safety Steam Safety Steam Automobile Co The Safety Steam Automobile Company headquarters was in Boston but its factory was at Depot Square in Ipswich.

The Safety Steamer was a small runabout which the company said that it profitied by getting rid of the bad features of earlier steam automobiles that were on the market. It featured a single cylinder engine, tubular boiler,seven gallon gasoline tank, a thirty gallon water tank, eliptical springs, and tiller stering.

This was the beginning of standardizing parts. A large tool box was mounted up front and a smaller one under the seat for asx stock market predictions purposes.

Production was discontinued sometime during The body was a standard body made by Currier, Cameron, and Co. From he built a small pound single cylinder gasoline runabout that he drove on the streets of Millville and Worcester. From the HorselessAge Magazine: Thurston, a well known mechanic of Worcester, Mass. The carriage which he will manufacture is the invention of Robert Aldrich, of Millville, R.

It weighs pounds, and is propelled by a two-cylinder horizontal gasolene motor weighing about 15o pounds. Transmission is by sprocket and chain, and two speeds and a reverse are used.

No others were ever made. Aldrich did design and manufacture a carbuerator that he sold for several years. After years sketching automobiles, Albert Proctor decided to build a runabout in for his personal use.

Originally it had a one cylinder, but was later replaced by a two cylinder 15 horse power engine under the seat with a water tank in front of the dash. It is in a private collection in Rhode Island. They were registered with the Massachusetts Highway Commission in New England Steam New England Motor Carriage Co. The New England Steamer was a pound runabout powered by two small high pressure engines.

Gasoline was used for fuel with the tank was placed about three feet ahead of the boiler. It was lever steered. Shortly after moving into its permanent location, the manufacture of Comet Bicycles was begun and the automobile business was sold to the Stanton Co. Inthe Stanton Mfg. The New England wanted to concentrate on its Comet Bicycle. A surrey was also added to its line.

The Stanton was built in the same factory as the Comet. Waltham Steam American Waltham Kel tec su 16ca stock Co. For five years to George M. Tinker and James W. Piper made steam cars in Waltham. They started at the American Manufacturing Company at High St. Tinker Steam Car American Waltham Automobile Co. The last steamer by Tinker and Piper.

Motor Pacing Machine of the Waltham Mfg. De Dion Gasoline Motor Horseless Age Magazine. A real novelty at the recent New York Cycle and Automobile Show was an electric runabout exhibited by the Waltham Manufacturing Co.

The frame is of steel tubing. The wheels, 32 and 34 in. The wheel base is 60 by 84 inc hes. Chloride batteries weighing pounds are employed with an kw. The capacity on one charge is said to be twenty-five miles. No evidence that it was put into production. Copied from the March,Issue of the Motor-Car Journal Published in England. An American Light Electrical Motor-Car. The Orient electric "runabout" made by the Waltham Manufacturing Forex binary options ex learn to trade, Waltham, Mass.

The frame is made from weldless steel tubing, the forward truck being swivelled to allow for unevenness of road without straining. The rear wheels are 34 inches and the front 32 inches in diameter, and are provided with 4-inch tires.

The accumulator has a capacity of 1, ampere hours, and the current operates a f-k. The radius of action is equivalent to about twenty-five miles on good level roads, but the car may be operated on poor, hilly roads with a proportionate decrease in mileage.

A new pattern spur differential gear is attached to the driving shaft, which distributes the power equally on the driving wheels, whether running straight or in turning curves. The tractive power on each driving wheel is thus equalized. A 15 per cent, grade may be climbed. A forward range of speed of three to twelve miles, and backward range from three to six miles, per hour is provided, controlled by a lever on the left of the carriage body. The steering lever is operated by the right hand pressed forward for steering to the left, and pulled backward to the right.

The carriage may be turned about in a small compass, the steering wheels being automatically retained at the correct angle to prevent skidding.

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The weight of the vehicle is 1, pound. Copied from the September issue of the Horseles Age Magzine. We show this week photographs of two new Orient products, top forex trader interview output of the Make money mailing postcards from home Mfg.

Oue is their motor bicycle, which has an air-cooled Aster motor. The gasoline tank holds four quarts. As will be seen from the illustration, the regular chain Is on the right-hand side, while the motor drives the rear wheel through a belt on the left-band side, which runs over a pulley on the side of the wheel. The belt is tightened by idlers, which are slackened to game maker money monopoly more print state then united the machine.

The two largest powers are Intended principally for racing. The other machine Is their " Victorlette. It is fitted with a 3 h. Aster or de How much money does a chartered accountant make in canada watercooled motor, with speed-changing gears. In designing this vehicle, the makers have endeavored to get away from the " horse wanted " style, and our readers will agree that they have been successful both In achieving this and In producing a graceful and attractive turnout.

It had an 8 earning money online in karachi power motor and a tranmission with two forward speeds and a reverse. The running gear is seamless tubing with drop forged joints. The entire body could be quickly removed for quick repairs. It had a water cooled motor and speed lever that when pushed forward controlled the speeds to 22 mph.

The new Orient runabout differs considerably from the last year's model. The new model has been widened 4 inches and the carriage is now of standard tread. Gear and body have also been lengthened, and the body has a folding seat on the front, under which is room for wraps, parcels and tools. The body is finished in black and has a maroon gear. The company will substitute artillery wheels at a slight extra charge if ordered.

The body is hung on rubber cushions, independent of the body frame, and is said to be absolutely free from vibration. The vehicle has a one lever control. Moving the lever forward starts the machine forward, and pulling back on it puts on the brake; and if the lever is held in the reverse position the carriage will go backward. The power is governed by a foot throttle device on the gasoline pipe and governs the amount of gas admitted to the motor, and this with the spark changing lever on the steering post makes the vehicle very easy to handle and simple for the beginner to learn.

The car is shown occupied by four people of average weight, and is claimed that it will carry such a load up average grades and will attain speeds of miles per hour. This was a new line of the Orient cars and was made as a cross between the Orient Buckboards and the Orients.

Between and they made approximately 2, Orient Buckboard Cars at the Waltham Manufacturing Company on Rumford Avenue. The cars were sold all over the world and today they are a big part of America's history on cars. Recently a survey was taken throughout the world of all Orient Buckboards in existence today. There are a total of 57 Orient Buckboard owners today; 45 are in the United States and, of course, one of these is at the Waltham Museum.

The end of Waltham Mfg. Inthe Waltham Automobile Company was failing and Charles Metz, who had left the company in to form his Orient Motorcycle Company, returned and bought the company. It was named the Metz Automobile Company. At the Boston Automobile Show, The Metz Plan was singled out for an article in the Horseless Age Magazine for one of its featured articles describing it as one of the best small cars of the show.

Metz Manufacturing CompanyIncorporated. Article taken from the Horseless Age Magazine. The Metz Manufacturing Company has been incorporated under Massachusetts laws at Waltham, Mass.

Metz Company, which nearly a year ago bought out the Waltham Manufacturing Company. Robbins, president; Charles Spiegelberg, treasurer, and Charles H. Metz is the majority stockholder. The company will continue to manufacture assembled parts for a runabout, which are sold under what is known as the Metz plan, the purchasers doing the final assembling themselves. It is said that nearly men are at present at work in the company's plant. Stock market bulk deals has been some talk of removing the business to some other city, but the Waltham Business Men's Association has taken the matter up, and will make endeavors to hold the company.

Although Metz was not the first to offer a kit car, Dyke and Sears pre-dated Metz with do-it-your-self high wheelers, Metz did offer the first known kit automobile on the installment plan, known as the Metz Plan.

This plan was in effect until when it became impractical to compete with a dealer supplied model "T" Ford. In Metz introduced the Model 22 as a model. The Model 22 had a 4 cylinder engine and continued using the friction drive concept that had been used in the Plan Car. Only one body style was available and the color was dark blue with cream wheels. This was a two person roadster without doors. An available option to increase seating capacity was either ashford market cattle prices single seat or a double seat that could be mounted on the tool box at the rear of the car; however, utility of these seats was limited due to difficult access.

Metz entered three Model 22 cars in the July Glidden Tour. He did so to give them a good road test before full scale production. The Metz team was the only team out of the 70 cars on the tour that arrived at the finish line without a time extension.

However, they did not accumulate enough points to gain an overall win. Metz also sent a stock market prognosis car team to compete in the Glidden Tour from Minneapolis Minnesota to Glacier Park Montana and this time they won with perfect scores and no time extension. In some ways this win was detrimental to the Metz company since it convinced Metz that the friction drive concept was the best and he continued using it even though noticable sales resistance to it was evident.

The company did not make a Because the government failed to pay for the use of the plant. They introduced the Master Six model, but because for lack of funds, it was an assembled model. Metz struggled until before he called it quits. The Metz was named the Waltham. The Abner Doble Steam Automobile Company There were four Doble brothers: Abner, William, John and Warren. The father patented the Doble Pelton wheel in California and made money. All documentary about the stock market crash at one time associated with the automobile company, with Abner, John and Warren as the leading lights.

Abner built his first steam car between and while still in high school, with the assistance of his brothers. It was based on components salvaged from a wrecked White Motor Company como operar en forex, driving a new engine of the Doble brothers' own design. It did not run particularly well, but it inspired the brothers to build two more prototypes in the following years. Abner moved to Massachusetts in to attend MIT, but dropped out after just one semester to straddle stock market with his brothers on their steam cars.

The Model B also protected the interior of the boiler from the common steam vehicle nuisances of corrosion and scale by mixing engine oil with feedwater. While the Model B did not possess the convenience of an internal combustion engined vehicle, it attracted the attention of contemporary automobile trade magazines with the improvements it displayed over previous steam cars.

Apart from its slow starting time, the Model B was virtually silent compared to contemporary gasoline engines. It also possessed no clutch or transmission, which were superfluous due to the substantial torque produced by steam engines from 0 rpm. The Doble was driven miles using 20 gallons of water. One person claimed that he had driven his Doble overmiles with no mechanical problems and had used only three sets of tires. Doble Company was located at High Street. The Doble was the best steam car ever built.

Their penchant for spending too much time building their autos resulted in very few sales. Louis Goddeu was a Candian who imigrated to Winchester and made his fortune.

He worked for United Shoe Company as part of the executive board. He was an inventor and had patents one of which was his four wheel tandem forex live rate commodity that used denatured alcohol as fuel.

He built four automobiles mostly for family members. None went into production. His most famous invention was the paper stapler that is in use today. Walkins Self-Contained Equipment Motor Vehicle Co. Watkins was a civil engineer from Boston who designed both a gasoline and an electric car in early for the Self-Contained Equipment Motor Vehicle Co. They were shown at the Franklin Park Exhibition in Boston on the Fourth of July.

They attracted some financiers from Springfield and convinced him to move there. Everett Steam Everett Motor Carriage Co The Partnership of Milne-Killlam began building light steam engines using the Whitney patent in Leach Steam Leach Motor Vehicle Co. It was a runabout on a tuberal frame with three elliptical supporting springs with two cylinder 6 horse power vertical engine. It had an automatically fed tubular boiler with enough water for 35 miles forex binary options traders graph select other either kerosene or gasoline for burner fuel.

It could carry either two or four passengers. Total weight was pounds. Failing to get financial support, he closed his shop in bridge hall stockbrokers limited Stanley Motor Carriage Company Bodies by Currier, Cameron, and Company, Amesbury.

Stanley Brothers in their Stanley Steamer View of Rear Axle Showing Frame, Chain Wheel, and Brake Down The Stanley Brothers, of Newton, Mass.

This wagon was begun July 6th,and first placed on the road in October, The first engines in this wagon were a pair of inclined cylinders by the Mason Regulator Co.

The Stanleys are not engineers, and hence depended on others for the practical details of their engines. There was no reverse gear which mason agreed that all vehicles should have one. Mason, of the Mason Regulator Co.

He also forex trading for linux the engine used by E. The Stanley Motor Carriage Co.

InStanley Motor Carriage Co. With all of these body orders, Currier-Cameron could not do all the work themselves, so three other carriage companies, Shields, Leitch, and Briggs were contracted to help make the bodies.

These four companies were involved in supplying these bodies. Leitch and Briggs were also independent makers. It also had a mud guard. Other differences were technical and not noticeable. The company then endured a period of decline and technological stagnation. Widespread use of electric starters in internal combustion cars eroded the greatest remaining technological advantages of the steam car.

Efficiencies of scale, a lack of effective advertising and general public desire for higher speeds and less fussy starting than were possible with the Stanley technology were the primary causes of the company's demise and the factory closed for good in in Newton.

The Locomobile was built in Newton and Westboro, MA for two more years before moving to Chicopee using a portion of the Stevens Arms Factory, sharing a space with Overman Motor Vehicle Company. They were ther for a very short time until their factory was finished in Bridgeport CT The Locomobile Gasoline model was developed there, but put into production in Bridgeport. The remainder of the Locomobile machinery was moved to Bridgeport in American Steam Automobile Company Bodies made by Biddle and Smart, Amesbury.

American Steam Car Sedan The American Steam Cars were built by Thomas S. Derr, a former teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Derr tinkered with Stanley Steam Cars specializing in servicing, modifications and improvements. In Derr formed The American Steam Automobile Co. The American Steam Automobile Co.

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The American Steam Cars were largely conversions, the chassis, bodies, and basic components were from Hudson Motor Car Co. The hood emblem and hubcaps bore the American Steam Car name. Houghton Houghton Automobile Co. Houghton Automobile Company, H. Houghton, Treasurer, experimented on their car forsome time kosdaq stock exchange trading hours the Houghton was finally ready for production.

There were not any differences in appearance or egineering than most steamers of the period to distinguish it. The engine was two cylinders and the boiler could be heated by either gasoline or kerosene. Ross 60 sec binary options brokers Company Ross was the leading race car driver and designer of race racecars at the turn of the century.

The Stanley Steamer that won most races was driven by Ross. His Ross Steamer was put into production in and was shown at the Boston Automobile Show of that year.

The Boston Police Department first car was a Ross. He stoppedmaking cars in to turn his talents toward inventing. The Ross car had a two cylinder 25 horse power steam engine. A bunson burner was connected to the acetylene gas supply to heat the 24 inch boiler and it could be quickly lit by a match. It used a Marsh pump for filling the boiler.

It had a large false radiator on the front. The front seat was divided and three passengers could sit comfortably in the rear seat. A 40 gallon water tank with several compartments was under the front seat. Side lamps, a large search light, tool boxes with tools, and any size top could be fitted.

The wheel base was inches and was supported on 40 inch springs in the front and 48 inch in the rear. The emergency brakes were of the internal expanding type with bronze faces expanded against steel, and operated by a lever beside the driver. They controll the car at all speeds and on sharp grades either forward or backward, and were applied directly to the rear wheels.

The footbrake was operated on the drive shaft, and had renewable friction face and also gave complete control of the car.

The tires were 34 inches and it weighed pounds. According to Beverly Rae KImes, Catalogue of American Cars, William A. Evidently, these plans fell through because if they had any production, it was in New Bedford, MA. Locomobile Locomobile Company of America Titled "Stanley Steaner, Locomobile No.

A new and important incorporation is that of the Automobile Co. Barber, of the Barber Asphalt Paving Co. The company has purchased outright the motor carriage business of the Stanley Bros.

Branch factories will be established in England, Germany and France, it is said, Mr. Barber leaving for Europe to superintend their erection on the 28th inst.

This corporation is organized under the laws of West Virginia, and must not be confounded with the Automobile Co. The New Jersey corporation antedates the West Virginia corporation by several months, a fact which was overlooked by the newer organization.

The name will probably be changed to avoid confusion. Amzi Lorenzo Barber and John Brisben Walker, organizers of the "Locomobile" Co. Barber retains the "Locomobile" Co. The new officers of the "Locomobile" Co. Amzi Lorenzo Barber, president; Le Droict Langdon Barber, vice-president, and Samuel T.

By September I this company expects to be producing 15 carriages a day. Walker has selected the name Mobile Co. The Stanley brothers will occupy the position of general managers for both companies under contract for one year. STANLEY and FRANCIS E. The carriage is itself a demonstrated success. It is so pronounced by those who have studied its construction and watched its performances. A single carriage has been tested over distances aggregating 10, miles.

Its weight is less than pounds. Its safety is assured. The boiler is tested up to 1, pounds to the square inch, but has a strength of about 3, pounds. It can stand for an hour, automatically regulated as to steam and fire, and be ready to start at a moment's notice. The carriage can run from 30 to 40 miles an hour according to gear used.

It is not only capable of great speed, but capable also of being regulated to follow the slowest truck. It can be made ready to run at any time in less than ten minutes.

The fuel is obtainable in almost any town at 7 cents a gallon. Two persons have been carried 72 miles in the carriage for 7 cents.

The machinery is of a character to be easily and inexpensively repaired in any part of the country. It is operated without jolt, or jar, or vibration. It is operated without heat or offensive odors.

It is operated without noise, except when a slight puffing occurs on climbing a grade. Its operation is simple, and can be easily understood and thoroughly mastered in a short time. It needs scarcely one-twentieth of the time demanded by a horse. The carriage can carry a supply of fuel capable of taking it one hundred miles. Water is needed about every forty miles. Its appearance is light and graceful, as the illustration will show. A few months later: The Stanley Brothers are no longer acting as managers for The Locomobile Co.

They now recommend 2 inch tires for country roads. Napier Motor Car Company of America Initially, the company imported assembled Napier automobiles from England. From latethe cars were assembled under licence in Jamaica Plain in a building formerly used by the B. The cars were offered with both American and British built bodies. The American Napier Touring Car had 60 horse power six 5" X 5" cylinder vertical motor in front and it had a sliding gear transmission; three speeds forward and reverse, and shaft drive,The frame was pressed steel with a inch wheelbas.

It weighed 2, pounds and could seat seven. Inthe company experienced financial problems and production was halted.

In a new company took over and production restarted in March that year. This lasted until when the Napier Motors Works took over the interests, but this venture barely lasted a year. Lenox Lenox Motor Car Co. The first Lenox, a 27 horse power 4, was introduced at the Boston Automobile Show. The designer was Charle Bates who had designed the Morse the year before. Even though they kept scouting for a different location, production began in Jamaica Plain.

Ina plant in Hyde Park became available and the Lenox was made in both cities. Ina 40 Horse power four and a 60 horse power six made up the Lenox models. Both cars were made in Jamaica Plain and Hyde park. Inthe factories moved to Lawerence and built only trucks. Roxbury Roper Steam Sylvester Roper on his Steamer Roper Steamer.

The first steam operated motor bicycle in the world Forerunner of the motorcycle. Stephen Roper was a manufacturer of steam engines who built a total of ten steam vehicles in 25 years. He had been experimenting with steam engines frombut he wasn't notiiced until when an article in the Scientific American magazine wrote about his latest effort, a two passenger four wheeler.

Coal carried undere his seat was used for firing his burner. His cost of operation was one cent a mile. His last vehicle, inwas sold to a Boston business man. Two years later he had an accident that either claimed his life or he died shortly there after. Westboro Macker Automobile Co. Maxim built his first car in at his home in Hyde Park.

It was a Columbia with pneumatic tires with the 3 cylinder Otto motor mounted in front of him and weighing only 32 pounds and no flywheels. A switch governing the ignition current was on one of the handle bars for quick stops or sudden slowups. The battery, consisting of 9 cells for the current, was under the seat. Pope was well aware of his work and the two developed a gasoline model in Even after Columbia Automobile decided to go with the electric models, he stayed with the company to keep making gasoline models.

He quit the Company in to work with T. Goodridge to build a new electric car in Hartford, CT. Bramwell, the inventor and mechanic, and John T. It was an air-cooled single cylinder three-wheel called the Bramwell-Robinson Sociable. Three were built and tested by with preparations to build 25 more. These had four wheels and greater horsepower. Robinson started building cars under his name.

Bramwell finished making the cars on hand and headed for Springfield, OH. Robinson is president and general manager, and T. Additions had been made to the plant of John T. It had left-hand wheel steering, possibly the first one made.

The frame is built of channel steel, and forms the support for the engine, transmission gear, and petrol tank. The motor, which is located in the rear of the frame, comprises two cylinders, 4 in.

It is fitted with automatic lubrication and is water-cooled, the circulation being on the thermo-syphon system. The ignition is of the magneto-electrical type, so arranged that the speed of the engine can bo varied between and 1, revolutions per minute. The engine is fitted with a single fly-wheel, the cranks working in an oil-tight case of aluminium. Coming now to the transmission mechanism, two speeds forward, ranging up to twenty-five miles per hour, and a reverse motion, are available.

The variable speed gear adopted is that known as the Upton. From the variable gear shaft the power is transmitted to the rear axle by a single chain.

The road wheels are of wood, 32 in. Roller bearings are used throughout. Steering is controlled by a large hand wheel, mounted on an inclined pillar. The action is positive, and the front wheels are locked in any position of the steering wheel, thus removing all danger of a sudden change of direction when running at a fast speed. The body is hung entirely separate from the engine frame on springs, thus ensuring very easy riding. Eight gallons of petroleum spirit are carried and five gallons of cooling water, sufficient for miles on ordinary roads.

Ready for a trip of miles, with petrol and water tanks both filled, the car, with hood, weighs under 1, lbs. Splash lubrication oiled the cylinders and all the engine bearings. It had separate carbureorer for each cylinder.

The ignition was by contact spark with the curent generated by a magneto. It used an Upton transmission with two forward and a reverse speed.

It had 34 inch artillary wheels Steering is accomplished by a wheel. It had 15 gallon gas tank and a 6 gallon tank for water which was sufficient for miles with four passengers. Tools were stored in a box under the driver's seat. Lights were provided for by two Dietz lamps on each side.

I t came complete with accessories which included a gon, two side lamps, a horn, and an odometer. Fully loade, it weighed pounds. The Robinson vehicle is called a touring carriage rather than a racer, although it is capable of sustained high speed. It is modeled after the best French designs of its class, and has four 4x6 cylinders placed in front, where they are readily accessible. The weight of the machine is stated to be about 2, pounds. Early inPope Automobile Company bought the Robinson Motor Vehicle Company and renamed the vehicle, Pope Robinson.

The Pope Robinson was a touring model. This advanced model, based on the Panhard, used a modern cellular radiator and competed with the top-line European vehicles. The vehicle had the regular water cooled four cylinder 24 horse power engine, but a single Longuemare carburetor instead of four separate carburetors.

The car was fitted with the new Robinson shifting gear transmission, giving three speeds ahead and one reverse, with a foot brake on the transmission. The ignition was electrical and the current is furnished by a storage battery under the front seat and by a magneto running on the flywheel. The spark was advanced and the magneto and batteries were cut in and out by two switches on the top of the steering post, so that the driver can change the spark, etc. Outside of the lamps and horns, all the equipment were American made.

In the spring ofthe Hub Motor Car Co, an automobile dealership in Boston, purchased the Dorchester Branch plant of the Crest Manufacturing Co. The design of the Dorchester was so much like the previous Crestomobile models that the Crest people did not like this for they still had some leftover automobiles to sale.

Their model was a slightly more sophisticated and the name was changed to the Hub. The plant shut down in It is especially adapted to the use of physicians and persons requiring a car of simple construction. It is driven by a vertical, air-cooled gasoline engine, hung in front of the front axle. Transmission of power is through a system of chains giving two speed changes. All mechanism is supported by the axles and the springs have only the body to support.

The seat is roomy, and there is ample space back of it for parcels or luggage.

It is claimed by the makers that the car will run 40 miles on one gallon of fuel and that the fuel tank holds enough for three times that much running. Weight is lbs. The Dorchester runabout is marketed by Hub Motor Car Co. Heymann Heymann Motor Vehicle and Mfg. The Heymann Motor Vehicle and Mfg. They immediately began to produce a three cylinder, four cycle, water-cooled, 6 horsepower stanhope runabout. It had tiller steering, wooden wheels, and solid tires. Fifty cars were reported to be in the building stage prior to the year's end.

Inthe company was reorganized and very little was heard from them until when the new Heymann was an altogether different car.

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It was a 40 horse power rotary-engine touring car featuring the gearless variable speed control. No cars were made but in one was exhibited at the Boston Automobile Show. The company simply disappeared. Shatswell Shatswell and Company Shatswell built a steam runabout with a four cylinder action motor fueled by gasoline with a flash boiler and combined feed water heater and muffler.

It had a thirty gallon water tank and eight gallon fuel tank. The company did sell a few more before it went into supplying parts and kits for his automobile. Inthe factory moved to Hartford along with the newly manfactured Columbia Automobile. Worthley used to drive this vehicle from his home in Rowley to his work in Charlestown. It was a full day's drive. Copied from the Automobiles Built in Essex County, Hayden Shepley, Worthley, Milk Street, Boston, Mass.

It is of tubular steel frame with tangent wire wheels, made by the Weston-Mott Co. The forward wheels are 34 inches in diameter and have ball bearings, while the rear wheels are 36 inches and have plain bearings.

The rear axle is tubular. Transmission s by sprocket and chain, the sprocket being 13 inches in diameter and being placed on a box containing the compensating gears. Four Hub Roller Bearings are used on the rear axle. The engines will be placed under the seats and enclosed in a dust-proof case. The boiler will contain copper tubes, and will also be placed out of sight.

Both fuel and water supply will be automatic. Three chains will be employed in transmission, two running from the crank shaft to a countershaft, which in turn drives the main sprocket chain. An air alarm and air brake will be used.

Steering and speed changing will be controlled by one lever, while a second lever operates the alarm and the brake, either independently or simultaneously.

Both water and steam gauges are within plain view of the operator, whose attention will be directed to any change, however slight, in the water level or steam pressure, by the ringing of a buzzer.

An automatic pump furnishes the air for the brake and the alarm. Rogers completed his three horse power runabout in It had a maximum speed of 15 miles per hour.

Its novel feature was its crank-lever contol patented by Rogers. Its advertising catalogue had a picture of his daughter in a baby carriage, the first ever not to show an automobile. He was unable to get financing to proceed into production.

He moved to Keene NH in where he built his new car, the Steamobile. Front and Rear View. McCullough, owner of the Back Bay Cycle Co, designed and built his gasoline automobile in and he had good road test results.

The wheel base was 54 inches with 32 inch wheels with wire spokes. It had a steel tubular frame tiller steering with a self locking device preventing it to be knocked out of hand and a swivel joint in the front axle compensated for rough roads. Each motor was independent of the other and could work separately when needed. A crank was used for starting the motor. The electric ignition was used with the jump spark being produced by dry cell batteries.

The speed of the motor could be varied from to revolutions by the spark and the intake. Chains were used for transmission with one forward and two reverse with intermediate speeds being changed with the speed of the motor.

Vehicle control was easily accomplished with controls on the steering mechanism. An equalizing gear, which distributed the strrains of the road, was a special patented feature. Later in the year, he sold his business to U. Automobile Vehicle C, and joined their staff. Early in the present month a motor carriage was seen wending its way over the road from Boston to Providence and thence to Stonington, Conn.

It was a steam carriage built in the shop of George E. Whitney, designer and builder of marine engines, East Boston. Gibson, Jersey City, N. The carriage has bicycle wheels and pneumatic tires, tubular steel frame, chain and sprocket drive, and is controlled in all its movements by a single lever. The engine and boiler together weigh in pounds, theengine being clamped to the side of the boiler and working vertically thereon. It is capable of developing a little over four horse-power, and is geared four to one.

Gasolene is employed for fuel, and the gasolene and water tanks are both placed within the box of the carriage, behind the seat. Sufficient water can be carried to last for a journey of 4o miles.

The steering wheels are pivoted at the hub, and the steering apparatus and whole front gear are fully compensated for all inequalities of the road. The weight of the rig with full supplies is about 7oo pounds, Mr. Gibson states that he had no difficulty in making good headway over all conditions of roads, which are unusually bad now in this section of New England.

Whitney, East Boston, Mass. The boiler was said to be entirely automatic and hence no repair as long as the water tank is supplied, that grades of 20 per cent could be ascended without difficulty, and that he had recently traveled over the common highway from Boston to Hartford in 10 hours, the distance registered by his odometer being over miles. Weight was pounds and the tires could be pneumatic, cushion, or solid.

The burner used either kerosene, gasoline, or any common product of petroleum. Ten pounds pressure would operate the vehicle on level ground in either direction. It can carry enough fuel for sixty miles and enough water for thirty miles on ordinary roads. These wagons were fully automatic. It came with either wood or wire wheel and with either solid or pneumatic tires. The frame and gear were all of steel tubing with braised joints.

Copied From the English magazine Motor-Car Journal, Edition. Whitney has built several wagons, no two alike. The first one weighed lbs. This car was completed in October,and had a light chain transmission.

Whitney's second carriage, built for the Whitney Motor-Wagon Company, of Boston, from which these illustrations were taken, was finished February 20th, This car also has 2-in.

All Whitney's engines are fitted with a valve-driving shifting crank-shaft, driven by chain and sprockets from the engine crank-shaft, the valve-driving crank-shaft being fitted to change its angular position relative to its driving sprocket by means of a hand-actuated, longitudinally movable, double spiral grooved reversing sleeve. The action ol this reversing gear is the same as that of the well-known shifting eccentric, the cranked valve-actuating shaft being introduced to avoid the large diameter sliding surfaces inseparable from the use of eccentrics, and for the sake of compactness.

Whitney uses two diameters of wheels, in. Hartford pneumatic tires, costing; dols. The wheels have steel rims and heavy reduced spokes, with bent ends at the hub. It is enough to say that Whitney has tried bevel gears, spur gears, and chains for his transmission, and that none of them exactly meet his views. He has used rear-wheel sprockets up to 20 in. The very large bronze and steel spur gear and pinion he used wore out with only miles' travel. Whitney is at present directing his attention principally to this point of transmission mechanism.

It is to be noted that all the motor-cars here illustrated have their transmission gear open to light road dust, and it is clear to the writer that the speedy destruction of all forms of gearing applied by Whitney has been due to grinding away, not to the legitimate wear of one clean, well-lubricated metal surface upon another.

The general lines of Whitney's cars vary but little from common forms of carriages. The chief peculiarities of Whitney's construction are to be found in his frame construction, his valve motion, his front axle construction, and in his steering lever. A considerable amount of information has been published that the Stanley Brothers moved to Lawrence, MA and built cars there. The Whtiney-Stanley had patent rights to make the car and it was manufactured by the MacKay Sewing Machine Company, owned by Frank Stanley.

Later, the vehicle was called MacKay Automobile. Whitney left for England in for a business trip and a vacation. He took his automobile with him and displayed it at the Exibition at the Agricultural Hall in London. From there he went to France and returned to the America in Thye leading exhibit at the April,Automobile Show in England was this Brown-Whitney Steamer.

An article in the May issue of the Horseless Age magazine states that the company had orders for a number of trucks, but no evidence or photographs were found to verify the claim. Clark The Edward S. Clark Steam Automobiles Copied from the Edition of the English Motor-Car Journal SOME NEW AMERICAN STEAM CARRIAGES.

Clark, builder of marine engines and boilers, Freeport Street, Boston, Mass. In style it is a dos-a-dos, and its weight is 1, lb, all supplies on. Wire wheels, 30 in. The pneumatic tires are 3 in. The frame is of steel tubing; the front axle is tubular and the rear solid. Full allowance is made in the front of the frame for the inequalities of the road. Roller bearings are used in the rear axle.

All the machinery is encased in the body, the compensating gear, brake and driving gear being all enclosed together in a dust-proof case on the hind axle. There are two handles, one for steering, the other for reversing and regulating speed. The latter works straight up and down, and the former may be turned over and used on either side of the seat. A band brake is operated by a pedal. The boiler is of the water-tube type, so constructed that no explosion can take place, and there are no large surfaces to burn out.

The safety valve is set at lb. The boiler is fired by a petrol burner. The double-cylinder, reversible engines develop 6 h. The supplies consist of 5 gals, of petroleum-spirit, and 20 gals, of water, and the seating capacity is five or six persons if desired.

Clark was one of the largest makers of engines from The was a four-cylinder opposed horizontal motor located crosswise under the body. The flash generator ws under the hood. Rotary Rotary Vehicle Company The Rotary and sometime known as the Intrepid was a American Automobile with a strange engine with two crankshafts, two connecting rods and one piston.

Despite the name the Rotary engine it was not a revoling engine. Rotary Motor Vehicle was built in and The Rotary automobile was produced as a roadster only.

The company specialized in boat engines, but they got into the automobile business with their strange and unorthodox one cylinder eight horsepower engine. The Rotary engine was claimed to be completely vibrationless and was entirely different from other engines of and Two cylinders and one crankshaft was the accepted theory for engine construction.

However the Rotary produced an engine that worked very well with two crankshafts. The crankshafts were contra-rotating, weighted and each had a piston rod.

Perfect synchronization was necessary in order to produce smoth easy power. The New England Electric Vehicle Co. Only a few hundred two-passenger Runabout New England Electric cars were made. The larger models were made at Hartford. By the end of the year, all crs were sold and the factory closed down. In the runabout, roller bearings were used in the gear, and the wheels were fitted with 25x3-inch New York Long Distance tires.

The wheel base was amply long to insure easy riding. The boiler was steel, 17 inches in diameter with inch tubes. The burner was fitted with a pilot light, and requires no torch in starting. The fire was controlled from the seat. The engine was of a new and special design. It had slide valves and link motion with the cylinders. The main features of the engine were that it was dust proof, and that its working parts ran in a bath of oil.

Water was fed to the boiler by an eccentric-operated plunger pump located on the end of the engine shaft. The engine and boiler were both hung on iron frames. The water tank held 40 gallons. The weight of the vehicle was 1, pounds. The was built for carrying eight passengers, or which may be used to carry trunks or any baggage by removing the two rear seats. The first carriage of this model was built for George E.

McQuesten, of Boston, and has been proved to have been capable of carrying 1. The new design's wheel base was 6 feet 10 inches. The body was large and strongly built, with a comfortable seat which could be closed. A large tool box was provided and a place for two.

It had side panel doors. The gasoline tank held 14 gallons, the water tank 48 gallons. Gasoline and air tanks were pressed steel. Lyman Lyman Automobile Co The Lyman touring car, which is built on order only by C.

It had a 4 cylinder 35 horse power verticle engine on a inch wheel base. The tread was 55 inches with 36 artillery type wheels and 4 inch tires. Elliptic springs were used on fron and back. Using a change speed gear of the indivisual clutch type, it had three forward speeds and reverse.

A tank under the front seat held 23 gallons of gas. It could be easily converted from a limousine to a touring tonneau. Following the departure of Binney from Binney and Burnham, Burman had a new partner, C.

The Binney and Burnham was a steam car, but Lyman and Burnham decided to make gasoline cars. The new cars were built for them at Fore River Ship and Engine Co.

Its engine was a water cooled horse power. The 78 inch wheel base frame was made of angler steel and the body was a steel frame with wood and aluminum panels. Inthey quit the automobile business. After the breakup with Burnham, Lyman built his automobiles for a very short while. It had a two-speed sliding gear transmission with the high speed and barke operated by one lever and the low speed and reverse by another.

Five passenger with a body weight of lbs. Radford built a 35 horse power four cylinder and a 45 horse power car for a Boston customer. The one shown was the larger on a inch wheel base and a fringed top. It could hold eight passengers. Except for the transmission, tires, and muffler, they were made entirely by Radford. The Quinsler Runabout with a removable third seat was made Quinsler and Company, Boston. It had wooden wheels and wheel steering and a continuous fenders and running board.

The Graham Equipment Co. These carriages seat two or four persons, weigh pounds, have Whitney boiler, engine and steering handle, carry water for 25 miles and gasoline for miles. The maximum speed is 15 to 20 miles an hour, and the trucks and machinery are entirely independent of the bodies. Sturtevant Sturtevant Mill Co. Sturtevant Mill Company, Dorchester section of Boston, built its first experimental car in and a four cylinder experimental followed in The was a six cylinder and the first to be advertised.

The springs were 4 feet in length and it had 34" wheels with tires furnished as ordered. These set on an aaccessory frame that held the engine. The engine was water cooled with a larged finned radiator in front. The steering was done by wheel and had three forward speeds and reverse. The control of the Sturtevant car was absolutely unique among automobile controlling systems.

For all forward speeds there was but one controlling device concerned, in addition to the steering wheel.

This was a foot button conveniently located under the driver's right foot, and this button performed a number of functions. When the motor was running with the main throttle closed it was controlled by the governor at a speed of about revolutions per minute. The Sturtevant with its unique transmission shaft was a nuimber of discs that acted as a pneumatic braking system and a automatic clutch mechanism makiong the Sturtevant a completely automatic driving automobile.

It was done by putting and releasing pressure by the foot button. One peculiarity of the automatic clutch system is that it was impossible for the driver to stall his engine, as. Its unique system was patented. Evidently, the cars were made for demonstration purposes and to sell its patent rights for only a very few were made. After quitting the automobile business, the company started manfacturing electrical appliances. Sown above is advertisement for its vacuum cleaner.

Boston High Wheel Automobile Boston High Wheel Auto Mfg. Copied from the Cycle and Automobile Magazine. Motor, 12 horse power, air cooled, horizontal opposed, placed transversely in the rear of the body, with valves mechanically operated and the air draft furnished by fan llywheel.

A Schebler carburetor furnishes the mixture and a pressure feed oiler supplies the pistons, the other engine parts being splash lubricated. The forwardly projecting crank shaft carries a bevel pinion, which may be placed in mesh at will with either one of two bevel gears on a roller bearing cross shaft, producing respectively forward and reverse motions.

On this shaft is carried one of the pair of aluminum telescopic pulleys which constitutes the change speed gear. Forward of the cross shaft is located another roller bearing transfer shaft carrying the othrt telescopic pully of the change gear. The differential to the right of those and the wheel driving sprocket upon its ends. The type in which the effective diameter of one is increased as that of the other is decreased, a mechanical connection maintaining the belt length equal under all driving conditions.

Each pulley is made in halves, being divided in a plane at right angles to the shaft, and, as the working surfaces of the halves are conical, a V-shaped groove is always maintained as the halves telescope, in which runs the belt.

This belt is of mineral tanned leather and of a trapezoidal section, or may be a V-shaped fabric covered chain.