Figure 19. — Stephen M. Balzer with one of his early rotary-engined 

 experimental vehicles. 



In Detroit, Mich., Charles Brady King planned a motor 

 tricycle in 1893, and in that and the following year planned 

 several 4-wheeled vehicles to be powered with Sintz, 1 -cyl- 

 inder, 2-cycle, gasoline engines. They were never built, 

 but in 1895 he started the construction of an automobile 

 powered with a 4-cylinder, 4-cycle, gasoline engine of his 

 own design. This vehicle (fig. 20) was successfully put in 

 operation on March 6, 1896, and is said to have been the 

 first automobile ever driven on the streets of Detroit. The 

 machine was dismantled shortly afterward. Several of the 

 valves of this engine were subsequently given by King to 

 Henry Ford and were used in the engine of Ford's first 

 vehicle. 



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