Quadricycle

In 1896 Ford called his vehicle the "Quadricycle"; it ran on four bicycle wheels with an engine driving the back wheels.[1]

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 modern-day France, a quadricycle is a 4-wheel car that cannot go faster than 45 km/h (28 mph), weighs less than 425 kg (937 lb), and has a maximum power of 4 kW (5.4 hp).[2][3] See also the USA's Low-speed vehicle class.

  • Ford Quadricycle, Henry Ford's first design[1]
  • Burnard Jarstfer Quadricycle (replica based on Ford Quadricycle)[4]
  • Orient Quadricycle (aka Orient Autogo)[5]
  • Truffault Quadricycle[6]
  • Le Rudge Quadricycle Tandem[7]
  • De Dion Bouton 1900 Quadricycle[8]
  • De Dion Bouton Victoria Quadricycle[9]
  • 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

References
  1. Brinkley, David, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, (New York: Penguin Group, 2003), p.22
  2. "Code de la route - Article R311-1" (in French). Government of France. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2019. Paragraph 4
  3. WIRED – France Is Letting 14-Year-Olds Drive This Tiny Electric Car at wired.com, accessed 8 May 2018
  4. Manufacturers/ Burnard Jarstfer/ 1896 Burnard Jarstfer Quadricycle at conceptcarz.com, accessed 8 May 2018
  5. 1899 Orient Autogo: Is it a bicycle? A motorcycle? An automobile? at thefinishingtouchinc.com, accessed 8 May 2018
  6. The 1901 Buchet Powered Truffault Quadricycle April 13, 2013 at theoldmotor.com, accessed 8 May 2018
  7. 1890s Tandem Quadricycle at oldbike.eu, accessed 8 May 2018
  8. De Dion Bouton 1900 at classicdriver.com, accessed 8 May 2018
  9. 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout Archived May 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  10. Quadricycle Peugeot Type 3 at arts-et-metiers.net, accessed 8 May 2018
  11. Page 56 on The Automotive Manufacturer, Volume 54 Trade News Publishing Co., 1912 at books.google.com, accessed 8 May 2018
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