Talk:Ford Quadricycle

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The Model A is not the successor of the Henry Fords Quadricycles. Notwithstanding the fact that the Quadricycles were experimental cars, in between them and the Model A were the products of the Detroit Automobile Company (1899-1901) and the Henry Ford Company (1901-1902).--Chief tin cloud (talk) 14:37, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The article currently claims that Ford "dubbed his creation the "Quadricycle", so named because it ran on four bicycle tires [...]", which makes it sound very much like he had just come up with a great new word there. Of course most Americans seem to think Ford invented The Wheel, so that's to be expected, but a bit of historic accurracy and scientific objectivity would do an encyclopedic article some good. Other sources claim Gottlieb Daimler presented what he called a "Motor-Quadricycle" at the 1889 Paris World's Fair, and Armand Peugeot, who had given him the idea, subsequently built a similar vehicle in series. Judging trom the old photos, Ford's contraption looks *very* much inspired by Daimler's work. Please prove me wrong: Put comparisons with Daimler's and Peugeot's Quadricycles in the article, and go into detail what Ford invented himself. --BjKa (talk) 11:07, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, so after finding out there already is a real Quadricycle article, I rewrote a lot of both. --BjKa (talk) 12:05, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]