Wow, 1896 was the year that my grandmother was born! With the advent of the motorcar, she decided that she had been thrown from a horse for the last time & never looked back. In fact, she was the first licensed female driver in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada when it wasn't considered to be a woman's place to operate a motor vehicle. If I had a quadricycle, I'd dress in period clothing and tour around the neighbourhood with it just for fun!
I meant to say that in 1903 when Ford started Ford Motor Company that he purchased his engines from the Dodge Brothers. So. Mr. Alameera - you are correct, the Quadricycle in 1886 did have an engine made by Ford, Henry Ford.
Thanks for such a great detailed video! I really enjoyed watching and figuring out how it all worked. It was a very ingenious but simple design. Love how the rocker at the rear controls the valve and the spark at the same time, for both cylinders! Also love the differential gear design! You did a great job of documenting the operation of this little wonder, most videos I've seen are not as detailed as yours. Thanks!
El diferencial está dentro del engrane por el que pasa la cadena, puedes verlo en el acercamiento del minuto 6:00, si pones pausa, posiblemente verás los pequeños engranajes cónicos girando dentro.
I took a bunch of close pictures of the Quadricycle in the 1980s and the gear and pulley ratios didn’t seem to make sense but now I think it was because they had a belt on the crankshaft that went around the full outer diameter and not the pulley on the side. I have to find those pictures and look again. It makes a lot more sense here although it is still a pretty high gear.
Wow, that thing moves out quite well. Props to the builders, and it proves Henry's genious. I want to build one with modern ATV controls being the only change.
About 44-years later (in 1939) Henry Ford, sole proprietor of the Ford Motor Company, personally, was making 1-Million dollars PER DAY.....and that's back when a Million dollars was worth something!
@Fersomling You can build a Rhodes Car bicycle (2 seat) and put a motor bicycle engine or tiller engine on it and do the same thing, but go about 40mph.
The real one is not far from me at the Henry Ford Museum. I've seen it several times over the years. This certainly looks very close. The dash appears red on this replica, of course on the original it's black. This also looks much better than the 117 year old original.
Mr. MOTORMASTER they did a scene like that on the Walton's with two ladies in an old Model A. The one was driving and the other had never ridden in a car before.
Man,if a man had one of those in 1896 or 1906 they wouldn't be stuck on the farm and could get to town in a hurry. But don't spend all day in the saloon that contraption will do you a disfavor latter on on your return trip
i realize that with only 10 being made they would be extremely expensive but whats wrong with the idea of mass production as a true city buggy? Most of the time this is all a person needs to run around town doing errands.
@jgmagoo1 A million dollars is still worth something, a typical house is far less than a million, plus a car, plus a college education plus groceries for quite some time where do you live if you don't think 1 million dollars is worth something?
Is that a hit and miss type engine with some kind of unseen speed governor, or is it just misfiring really badly when it gets up to high speed? :) Also, the cam only operates the exhaust valves (and the spark plug on the opposite cylinder...) from what I remember? The intake being suction-based on springs? What kind of speed did you get up to?
Muy bonito, ¡sí señor! Parece que no tiene diferencial, pero cuando en el vídeo paráis una rueda con la mano la otra sigue girando, ¿es que la primera izquierda loca y solo la derecha ofrece propulsión? ¿Las ruedas son de bicicleta o son de moto? Y por último ¿lo habéis hecho de cero o lo habéis encontrado en forma de kit? Mucho cuidado con salir a la carretera, que como os pille un picoleto... Muchas gracias por compartir el vídeo.
