The Quadricycle
Soon, Ford got a chance and became chief engineer at the main Detroit Edison Company Plant, with responsibility of maintaining electric service in the city 24 hours a day. During his hectic schedule, he spent his spare time experimenting, what he dreamed severa l years before – to build a gasoline-powered vehicle. His first working gasoline engine was completed at the end of 1893. And after three years, he completed his first horseless carriage, the ‘Quadricycle’.
It was named as Quadricycle, because the chassis of the four-horsepower vehicle was a buggy frame mounted on four bicycle wheels. It was Ford’s first car. He continued working at the Edison plant. His salary reached the lofty figure of $ 1,800 a year. Meanwhile, he set about designing and building his second car. A description of his improved model appeared in the pages of The Detroit Journal in the first news story published about a Ford car, under the headline :
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