Figure 20. — Charles Brady King at the tiller of his experimental 4-cylinder 

 automobile in Detroit in 1896. 



Henry Ford, machinist and one-time farmer, had experi- 

 mented with gasoline engines for a number of years before 

 ultimately constructing in his little workshop on Bagley 

 Avenue in Detroit a 4-wheeled, tiller-steered vehicle (fig. 

 21) powered with his own 2-cylinder, 4-cycle, horizontal, 

 gasoline engine. This car, with Charles B. King as a pas- 

 senger, had its first test run on the streets of Detroit on 

 June 4, 1896. It is now on exhibition in the Henry Ford 

 Museum. Several successful racing cars were later built 

 by Ford, and in 1903 the first model- A Ford automobile, a 

 2-cylinder machine, was offered to the public by the then 

 newly formed Ford Motor Co. 



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