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Dear Group,
After fixing my sister-n-laws electrical bugs so that it would pass inspection, she got me a great book about the pictorial history of USA made bikes from the beginning to present.
This first image is of a Belgian Inline 4 Cylinder, complete with SHAFT drive, circa 1908!! Sorry, don't have the stats on displacement or Horsepower, but it was shown for reference of the USA made 4 cylinders by companies like ACE, Pierce, and CURTISS.
This next pic is of a CURTISS V-8 with Shaft drive, 1907 model year, 7 feet long, 4000cc displacement developing a wopping "40" horses at 1800 rpm, it weighed 275 lbs, took 2 miles to get up to speed and topped out at 136.36mph, took an additional 1 mile to stop it,"NOTE the Friction rear brake!"
Apologies for the size of pic, it was a large book and it covered two pages, wanted to keep the size to display the details, the gas tank is in the frame, the OIL tank is on the top rail,...they didn't have recirculating oil chambers back then. If you recognized the name, yes, they went on to produce aircraft engines!!!
After fixing my sister-n-laws electrical bugs so that it would pass inspection, she got me a great book about the pictorial history of USA made bikes from the beginning to present.
This first image is of a Belgian Inline 4 Cylinder, complete with SHAFT drive, circa 1908!! Sorry, don't have the stats on displacement or Horsepower, but it was shown for reference of the USA made 4 cylinders by companies like ACE, Pierce, and CURTISS.
This next pic is of a CURTISS V-8 with Shaft drive, 1907 model year, 7 feet long, 4000cc displacement developing a wopping "40" horses at 1800 rpm, it weighed 275 lbs, took 2 miles to get up to speed and topped out at 136.36mph, took an additional 1 mile to stop it,"NOTE the Friction rear brake!"
Apologies for the size of pic, it was a large book and it covered two pages, wanted to keep the size to display the details, the gas tank is in the frame, the OIL tank is on the top rail,...they didn't have recirculating oil chambers back then. If you recognized the name, yes, they went on to produce aircraft engines!!!
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