. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. OLDS GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE, 1897 Gift of the Olds Motor Works in 1915 (USNM 286567) Ransom E. Olds, builder of this machine (fig. 43), re- called a few years ago that it was one of four constructed at Lansing, Mich., in 1897, by the then newly formed firm, the Olds Motor Vehicle Co., of which Olds was manager. The machine was successfully operated that year at a speed of about 10 miles an hour with four passengers. The car is equipped with a 6-horsepower, 1-cylinder, water-cooled engine (fig. 44) placed horizontally beneath the body to the rea
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. OLDS GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE, 1897 Gift of the Olds Motor Works in 1915 (USNM 286567) Ransom E. Olds, builder of this machine (fig. 43), re- called a few years ago that it was one of four constructed at Lansing, Mich., in 1897, by the then newly formed firm, the Olds Motor Vehicle Co., of which Olds was manager. The machine was successfully operated that year at a speed of about 10 miles an hour with four passengers. The car is equipped with a 6-horsepower, 1-cylinder, water-cooled engine (fig. 44) placed horizontally beneath the body to the rear of the vehicle, with the vertical flywheel in the center of the car so that the transverse crankshaft is located about midway between the front and rear axles. Figure 43. — Ransom E. Olds built one gasoline automobile in 1895 or 1896, and four more of the same design in 1 897. This 1 897 Olds is the only re- maining example of these first Olds Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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