Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
SPRING PROPELLED MOTOR
CAR 800 YEARS AGO
sfsa, Driven Vehicle China 163o--Sas First Used in
Holland Interesting Motor Development Sir Isaac
Newton Built Steam Car In 1890
aRST FACTORY IN UNITED STATES
WAS BUILT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Its Output Was Fifteen CarsToday There Are In Operation Five
Hundred Plants Which Yearly Manufacture Three Hun
dred and Fifty Thousand Automobiles.

! drive wheel was invented by Richard
I Trevithick IN England in 1872.
In 1922 Sir Goldsworthy Quincy be-
gan working upon six-wh Ell steam
4 carr. ages, and in 1881 Quincy car
rage route was established between
Cheltenham and Gloucester, Eng. and.
This carriage was capable Of running
Twelve miles an hour After four
months time the serN ice was discon-
tinued because of public oppos. ton.
While Quincy was working on his
carriage Walter Hancock estab ished
a steam omnibus line in 1929. His
was the first chain transmission ve-
hicle invented Five of these car
riages were run between Paddington
and Stratford n 1886. In twelve weeks
IL, $50 passengers were carried. This
line was practically forced out Of
business by the English government
In that year toll law was passed
W tn taxes so high none could afford
to run cars. Because of this law
further development of the horseless
carriage was prohibited and very
little along this line was done until
the repeal OF the law in 1916.
Turning to France, the country that
is making the aeroplane the travelling
car of the future, We find In 1878 a
steam carriage was built by Amedee
Bollee, of Mans. France, and two
years later he constructed La Nou-
velle." This car was run distance
of 745 miles in ninety hours as late
as 1895.
In 1886 the first gasoline engines
were used on road vehicles. These
were the invention of Carl Benz and
Gottlieb Daimler, of Germany. In
1883 the two cylinder engine was in
vented by Daimler, and Messrs. Pan
hard and Leyassor, of Paris, immedi-
qtely acquired the patents and built
around the engine the first real gaso-
inc motorcar.
The Panhard car was quickly fol-
owed by the Renault F'reres and the
Benz. Then factories began spring
ing up In France, Germany, England
and the United States, and so sue
7essful were the gasoline motors that
in 1894 and 1895 the power machines
were proclaimed q success. To j,
Frank Duryea belongs the distinction
of being the first American to turn
nut a successful motor-driven vehicle.
The first car was completed at Spring
field Mass, within four miles of the
home of the Stevens-Duryea today, in
1891, and was equipped with a one
cylinder motor, but in 1894 a vehicle
was built propelled by two cylinders
Details were improved and appear
ance of the car was changed from
hat of the high-wheel buggy to
pneumatic-tired wheel.
n this evolution fifteen cars were
made and sold, which were the first
be placed in the hands of the public
" anv manufacturer.
In the early nineties the concern
set about the work of producing the
hest road wagon for a moderate price,
suitable for American roads and re-
1uirements. The success We stages Of
progress were signalized by the sue
cess of the Duryea wagons in COM
petition with the best foreign pro-
auctions
At that time $3.50 Americans had
lust begun to take the automobile
seriously. A first lot of fifteen wagons
was then built for sale in Springfield
These veh' cles were equipped with a
12-horsepower, two cylinder water
cooled motor, the cylinders being side
by side. cast integrally and placed
hor' zontally.
The entire lot was sold during the
year, Mr.. puryea was not suited with
this very early type of carriage, and
the next development added improve
ment TO motor, TRANSMIT ssion and final
drive. which resulted in a vehicle that
received high commentator when
shown in New York in 1897
In the meantime, the light Duryea
carriage had won the London-to-
Brighton run, November a. 1896.
improvements cont .nred In every
essential detail until about 1870. when
Mr. Duryea butt car combining all
the desirable points evolved during
his long period of axuerinenta ton
md development.
The big siv-cylinder cars were first
ort upon the market in 1875, and We're
simultaneously successful.
The efforts of the Stevens Duryea
engineers have always been directed
toward the perfection of the touring
cars, and. consequently, the Stevens
D"rvea name is intimately associated
with this type of car.