1896 · Quadricycle with Tubular Frame · Werk 257 von 1.871

A small four-wheeled motor carriage of 1896 in the open door of a brick shed behind a house in Detroit, four slender bicycle wheels, a light frame of thin steel tubes, a single plain leather bench seat for two on top of the frame, under the seat a small horizontal two-cylinder engine of bare iron with a flywheel at one side, in front of the seat an upright steering lever, a small brass bell on a bracket, the shed of dark red brick with a widened doorway of fresh pale wood, a man in shirtsleeves and waistcoat seen from behind at the doorway, warm evening light from the left.