reference "Gilltraps Australian Cars from 1879 - A history of cars built in Australia" (authors Gilltrap T and M) ISBN 0 85558 936 1 (Golden Press Pty Ltd)ġ920–1930 1925 Miller 122 Indianapolis 500 front-wheel-drive racer A photo of the car with the system fitted is available from the Mitchell Library and the patent design drawing is still available from the Australian Patent Office. Based in Burwood NSW Mr Hoskins was a prominent member of the Sydney motoring industry and invented a system that used a "spherical radial gear" that was fitted to what is believed to have been a Standard (built by the Standard Motor Company of England). Hoskins designed and was granted a patent for his front-wheel-drive system. In 1912 he began manufacturing a line of wheeled fire engine tractors which used his front-wheel-drive system, but due to lack of sales this venture failed. He promoted and demonstrated several such vehicles, notably with transversely mounted engines, by racing at various speedways in the United States, and even competed in the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup and the French Grand Prix. Walter Christie of the United States patented a design for a front-wheel-drive car, the first prototype of which he built in 1904. It was developed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1897 based on a concept developed by American inventor Wellington Adams. 1900 Lohner–PorscheĪ different concept was the Lohner–Porsche of 1897 with an electric motor in each front wheel, produced by Lohner-Werke in Vienna. When production ceased in mid-1901, over 400 copies had been sold for 3,000 Francs (circa $600) each. In October a Victoria Combination won its class in the Paris-Rambouillet-Paris event, covering the 100 kilometre course at 26 km/h (16 mph). By 1899 Victoria Combinations were participating in motoring events such as the 371 km Paris- St Malo race, finishing 23rd overall and second(last) in the class. The name Victoria Combination described the lightweight, two-seater trailer commonly known as a Victoria, combined with the rear axle and drive mechanism from a motor tricycle that was placed in front to achieve front wheel drive. The engine was mounted on the front axle and so was rotated by the tiller steering. It was variously powered by 1.75 or 2.5 horsepower (1.30 or 1.86 kW) De Dion-Bouton engine or a water cooled 3.5 horsepower (2.6 kW) Aster engine. In 1898/9 the French manufacturer Société Parisienne patented their front-wheel-drive articulated vehicle concept which they manufactured as a Victoria Combination. Two prototypes of the Autocar were built and the Austral Otis Company was going to go into business with Henry to manufacture Henry's car but the cost of the car was too prohibitive as it could not compete with the cost of imported cars. Henry's car was reported in the English press at the time and featured in the English magazine Autocar which the car was named after. This car may have been the first front wheel drive car in the world. In 1899 the inventor Henry Sutton designed and built one of Australia's first cars, called The Sutton Autocar. In 1898, Latil, in France, devised a front-wheel-drive system for motorising horse-drawn carts.
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It is possibly the world's first front-wheel-drive automobile, but it never saw series production, with just one prototype made. Sometime between 18 the Austrian brothers and bicycle producers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, see Gräf & Stift, commissioned the technician Josef Kainz to build a voiturette with a one-cylinder De Dion-Bouton engine fitted in the front of the vehicle, powering the front axle. It then took at least a century, for the first experiments with mobile internal combustion engines to gain traction. The world's first self-propelled vehicle, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's 1769/1770 "fardier à vapeur", was a front-wheel driven three-wheeled steam-tractor. Prior to 1900 Nicholas Cugnot's 1769 steam-powered gun-tractorĮxperiments with front-wheel drive cars date to the early days of the automobile. ( August 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification.
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