Stephen Marius Balzer was an inventor and early automobile manufacturer migrated to the United States in the 1870s.
This early automobile is less than six-feet long and three-feet wide. The four-wheeled vehicle’s front wheels are ten inches smaller than the rear ones.
The front wheels are mounted on bicycle type forks that are connected by a tie-rod and steered by a tiller.
The automobile has a three-cylinder, air-cooled, rotary-type engine, when the engine was running, the cylinders and crank case revolved in a vertical plane around the stationary crankshaft.
A stub shaft, turning with the crank case, carried the driving gears of a three-step, constant-mesh transmission that had three forward speeds and no reverse. The driver selected the desired gear ratio by operating a lever on the right that keyed the appropriate driven gear to its shaft. The same lever also controlled the clutch.
The front wheels are mounted on bicycle type forks that are connected by a tie-rod and steered by a tiller.
The automobile has a three-cylinder, air-cooled, rotary-type engine, when the engine was running, the cylinders and crank case revolved in a vertical plane around the stationary crankshaft.
A stub shaft, turning with the crank case, carried the driving gears of a three-step, constant-mesh transmission that had three forward speeds and no reverse. The driver selected the desired gear ratio by operating a lever on the right that keyed the appropriate driven gear to its shaft. The same lever also controlled the clutch.