Part 12 (2/2)

In 1881, Raffard, a French engineer, made a tricycle and a tram-car that is said to have been the first electric automobile which ran satisfactorily

CHARLES JEANTEAUD

It is claimed for Jeanteaud that he built a four-wheeled electric vehicle about 1881, which was changed in 1887 by the addition of an Immisch motor

In 1890 he constructed a three-wheeled stea the advice and interest of Archdeacon In June, 1895, at the Paris-Bordeaux race, he entered an electric automobile and established battery relays every twenty-five kilometers, but without success so far as speed was involved in coasoline phaeton, but his subsequent work has been primarily confined to the electric

SYLVESTER HAYWOOD ROPER

As early as 1850, Sylvester Haywood Roper, of Roxbury, Mass, began experi with steam for street-vehicle propulsion In 1882, when he was seventy-three years of age, he fitted a Coluine, and with this he could run seventy hed one hundred and sixty-five pounds He engaged in many track events and his record for three runs of one-third of a mile each, was forty-two, thirty-nine and thirty-seven seconds

COPELAND

A tandem tricycle with a vertical boiler and a two-cylinder vertical engine was built by Copeland, of Philadelphia, in 1882 Kerosene was used to fire the boiler It is said that over two hundred of these enious and practical engineer, Bouton made various mechanical devices, but it is claimed that from a clever toy came the associations which have resulted in the now famous firm, DeDion-Bouton, hich he is connected It is said Co for the maker, met Bouton Thus came the partnershi+p, in 1882, with Bouton and Trepardoux Bouton ht and efficient boiler of his invention, which for years remained the most important contribution of the firm to this art In 1885 a quadricycle wasthe runs made with this, in which Merrelle co-operated, was such as to bring forth the personal ideas of DeDion in so strong a manner that Trepardoux and Merrelle severed their connections with the fir of the work of this fir saw the production of nu carts, and a variety of other types Even as late as 1897 heavy steam chars-bancs were made by them, and that year also saw their well-known thirty-five-passenger, six-wheeled coach, Pauline, on the streets of Paris--a vehicle which cost over twenty-six thousand francs, and had a thirty-five horse-power steam tractor This vehicle had been preceded by a somewhat similar one constructed in 1893 on the old idea of a mechanical horse attached to an ordinary 'bus body from which the front wheels had been removed

In 1895, DeDion-Bouton produced their first liquid hydro-carbon engine vehicle--a tricycle with air-cooled nition, which is so well known to everyone in the industry to-day These were asoline vehicles into which they introduced their engine, naer, four-wheeled vehicle, and in 1900 a six-passenger vehicle, e factory at Putaux, France, well known under the name of DeDion-Bouton et Cie, has been continually croork on vehicles, and with the manufacture of their motors which are still sold independently to other makers in France, as well as in other countries In fact the ht be said to be now their main work

COUNT A DEDION

Count DeDion's interest in an ingeniousthe enterprise noell known under his name His activity in the Auto events in the past ten years, has in fact brought him into far more proy in connection with his coh the credit for the iven to Bouton, DeDion is largely responsible for the great success and general prominence of the coain in 1889, Arht up the subject of auto the Daiiven to the ht out very soon his famous two-parallel cylinder inally of the fireot, he severed his connection with that firm, and in 1876 formed the Society of Artisans In 1898, additional factories were erected at Fives-Lille, and now the concern has works also at Audincourt The latter works is clai establisheot is a member of many learned societies, was elected an officer of the Acadeion of Honor in 1889

RADCLIFFE WARD

Ward coland about 1886, and built a cab in 1887, which he ran in Brighton with more or less success A second vehicle, an omnibus, was built by him and run on the streets in London in 1888, and actually covered, all told, five thousand miles

MORS

A manufacturer of electrical apparatus, the Mors establishment an to asoline vehicles

MAGNUS VOLK

In 1887, Volk built an electrical dog cart which, like that of Ward, was seen on the streets of Brighton The next year he associated himself with Immisch & Co, and built for the Sultan of Turkey an electrical dog cart

This was claimed to have a radius of fifty miles at ten miles an hour, with seven hundred pounds of battery in twenty-four cells, driving the vehicle by means of a one horse-power motor