A Steam Quadricycle.
Imagine two safety bicycles, the wheels about the size of ordinaries, joined catamaran fashion, with a small boiler and engine and a complicated rigging of machinery hanging' between the rear wheels, a. seat for two persons up in front, with a steering wheel for the driver to grasp instead of rains, and th carnage is revealed. Ten miles and more an hoar is the speed «xpeeted, and hill climbing will be as easy as rolling off a log. The little boiler will stand more than 1001 bof steam, generated from a three- jet naphtha flame, the fuel being carried in a tube bent around over the boiler like a- stove-pipe with elbow joints. It ioMs four gallons— enough for ; a seven tours' ran. A ten-gallon tank of water is aleo packed •away in the works. The engine is vertical, 2x4 cylinder, four•looh stroke, working on a crank shaft to •whioh is attached a balance wheel, and a • chain wheel, from which the power is communicated to the rear drivers. Th© throttle valve, steam whistle, steam cooks, and other controllers are under the sand of the m&n on the seat as he steers the ■buggy. All complete, the total weight ♦f the vehiolo is 400 pounds.—" Beaton ■«k>be."
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Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 869, 9 December 1893, Page 5
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210A Steam Quadricycle. Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 869, 9 December 1893, Page 5
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