Quadricycle
Quadricycle, with an i, was a popular term for human or motorized four wheel bike-like vehicles around the turn of the 19th to 20th century
Quadricycle refers to vehicles with four wheels.
In 1896 Ford called his vehicle the "Quadricycle"; it ran on four bicycle tires with an engine driving the back wheels.[1]
In modern day France, a quadricycle is a 4 wheel car that cannot go faster than 28 mph and weighs less than 770 pounds.[2] See also the USA's Low-speed vehicle class
- Ford Quadricycle, Henry Ford's first design[1]
- Burnard Jarstfer Quadricycle (based on Ford Quadricycle)[3]
- Orient Quadricycle (aka Orient Autogo)[4]
- Truffault Quadricycle[5]
- Le Rudge Quadricycle Tandem[6]
- De Dion Bouton 1900 Quadricycle[7]
- De Dion Bouton Victoria Quadricycle[8]
- De Dion Bouton “La Marquise” Quadricycle[9] (Steam runabout)
- Peugeot Type 3 Quadricycle[10]
- 1889 Daimler Quadricycle[11]
Additional motorized four-wheelers:
Quadricycle, quadracycle, quadcycle, quadrocycle and quad all refer to vehicles with four wheels. More specifically these terms may refer to:
- All-terrain vehicle, also known as quad or quad bike
- Automobile, the first experimental steam automobiles were termed steam quadricycles
- Low-speed vehicle, referred to in some countries as a quadricycle
- Motorised quadricycle, European classifications for light four-wheeled motorized vehicles: light quadricycles, category L6e, and (heavy) quadricycles, category L7e
- Quadracycle, a four-wheeled style of cycle
- Velomobile, an enclosed human-powered vehicle
See also
- Cyclecar
- Horse and buggy
- Horseless carriage/Brass era car
- List of motorized trikes
- Safety bicycle
- Steam locomotive
- Tricycle
- Unicycle
- Wagon
- List of land vehicles types by number of wheels
References
- 1 2 Brinkley, David, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, (New York: Penguin Group, 2003), p.22
- ↑ WIRED - France Is Letting 14-Year-Olds Drive This Tiny Electric Car
- ↑
- ↑ 1899 Orient Autogo
- ↑ The 1901 Buchet Powered Truffault Quadricycle April 13, 2013
- ↑ 1890s Tandem Quadricycle
- ↑
- ↑ 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout Archived May 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout Archived May 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Quadricycle Peugeot Type 3
- ↑ Page 56 on The Automotive Manufacturer, Volume 54 Trade News Publishing Co., 1912
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