This article is about small motorized four wheeled vehicles. For small four wheeled vehicles with pedals, see quadracycle.
Quadricycle, with an i, was a popular term for human or motorized four wheel bike-like vehicles around the turn of the 19th to 20th century
Quadricycle refers to vehicles with four wheels.
In 1896 Henry Ford named his first vehicle design the "Quadricycle". it ran on four bicycle wheels, with an engine driving the back wheels.[1]
In 21st century France, a quadricycle is a 4-wheel car that cannot go faster than 45 km/h (28 mph), weighs less than 425 kg (937 lb), and has a maximum power of 4 kW (5.4 hp).[2][3] In the United States, a similar classification is the low-speed vehicle class.
Ford Quadricycle, Henry Ford's first design[1]
Burnard Jarstfer Quadricycle (replica based on Ford Quadricycle)[4]
Orient Quadricycle (aka Orient Autogo)[5]
Truffault Quadricycle[6]
Le Rudge Quadricycle Tandem[7]
De Dion Bouton 1900 Quadricycle[8]
De Dion Bouton Victoria Quadricycle[9]
De Dion Bouton "La Marquise" Quadricycle[9] (Steam runabout)
Peugeot Type 3 Quadricycle[10]
1889 Daimler Quadricycle[11]
Additional motorized four-wheelers:
Duryea Motor Wagon
Benz Velo
Quadricycle, quadracycle, quadcycle, quadrocycle and quad all refer to vehicles with four wheels. More specifically these terms may refer to:
All-terrain vehicle, also known as quad or quad bike
Motorized quadcycle, a motorcycle with four wheels
Automobile, the first experimental steam automobiles were termed steam quadricycles
Low-speed vehicle, referred to in some countries as a quadricycle
Quadricycle, European classifications for light four-wheeled motorized vehicles: light quadricycles, category L6e, and (heavy) quadricycles, category L7e
Quadracycle, a four-wheeled style of cycle
Velomobile, an enclosed human-powered vehicle
^ abBrinkley, David, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, (New York: Penguin Group, 2003), p.22
^"Code de la route - Article R311-1" (in French). Government of France. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2019. Paragraph 4
^WIRED – France Is Letting 14-Year-Olds Drive This Tiny Electric Car at wired.com, accessed 8 May 2018
^Manufacturers/ Burnard Jarstfer/ 1896 Burnard Jarstfer Quadricycle at conceptcarz.com, accessed 8 May 2018
^1899 Orient Autogo: Is it a bicycle? A motorcycle? An automobile? at thefinishingtouchinc.com, accessed 8 May 2018
^The 1901 Buchet Powered Truffault Quadricycle April 13, 2013 at theoldmotor.com, accessed 8 May 2018
^1890s Tandem Quadricycle at oldbike.eu, accessed 8 May 2018
^De Dion Bouton 1900 at classicdriver.com, accessed 8 May 2018
^ ab1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout Archived May 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^Quadricycle Peugeot Type 3 at arts-et-metiers.net, accessed 8 May 2018
^Page 56 on The Automotive Manufacturer, Volume 54 Trade News Publishing Co., 1912 at books.google.com, accessed 8 May 2018
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