What is it? Quiz #397

We all know the Saab three cylinder two-stroke engines. And most of you will be aware that many of modern sub-compacts are making use of three cylinders. Yet those known engine concepts are quite diffferent from the powerplant in the car above. One could even start a discussion if the car had a two or three cylinder. It is a most intriguing engineering design. In a way it reminds of the Gobron Brillie we tested you with a few weeks ago. But nothing more than reminds of. We understand that only one of the cars survives today and that that particular example was built about two years before the one pictured above (or is it the other way round..?).

Please give us any relevant information you may have on this particular car. Whatever you can come up with, that is to say within 100 words. Please post your answer in the comment box below (please do not email) and be sure to read The Rules under Read More. This may be your chance to win the infamous PreWarCar T-shirt and wear with pride at this season’s events! Results will be published next Saturday, June 27.

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Freitag Juni 19th, 2015

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21 Juni 2015, 20:42

It’s a Compound, judging by the ad in “Treasury of early american automobiles” it could be a 1905 Model 3, 24-28hp. Unfortunately that’s conflicting with you guys claiming it’s 2 years younger/older than the surviving 1906 car. It would be interesting to compare that car with patent no. 640,890 from january 9, 1900 submitted by J.W. Eisenhuth himself. Either way, it definitely is a product of the Eisenhuth Horseless Vehicle Company.
Perhaps they even were clairvoyant, their 1905 ad already stated “Our agency for your city may yet be unplaced” and after making 384 cars in February 1907, Eisenhuth filed a bankruptcy schedule.

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21 Juni 2015, 09:03

The car in the picture is a 1905 24/28hp Model 3 Compound, produced by the EHV company. In reality it was produced by the Eisenhuth Horseless Vehicle Co after they "purchased" the design from the Graham-Fox Motor Company. EHV went out of business in 1907 following protracted legal battles with Graham-Fox over ownership of the rights to the design.
John Eisenhuth, San Francisco, CA, had made an experimental automobile in 1896 , but not meeting with any success he decided to head East to continue with his ideas. In Newark, NJ, he met up with D. F. Graham who had developed a Graham-Fox compound engine that he really liked. They made a prototype that was exhibited at the New York show in 1903.
The surviving car is dated as a 1906 model

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20 Juni 2015, 20:07

1906 Compound Model 3

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20 Juni 2015, 18:37

My Humble guess is that this seems to be a 1904 Compound . These were made by the Eisenhuth Horseless Vehicle Company from 1904 until 1907. The Middleton Connecticut company, Though apperently with rootes in New York, had been started by a New yorker named John Eisenhuth. His patent machine in focus consisted of two internal combustion pistons whose exhaust gasses were sent and combusted via a large center piston.

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20 Juni 2015, 07:51

This is a 1905 Compound model 3 which has a 3 cylinder engine. In contrast to the suggestion that it had a 3 cylinder two-cycle engine, it has two four-cycle high pressure cylinders and one larger two-cycle low pressure cylinder. In the low pressure cylinder the high-pressure gases expand to a much lower pressure before being exhausted to the atmosphere, enhancing the efficiency of the engine. An extra advantage is that the low pressure cylinder acts as a muffler. The second steering wheel by the way is used for gear-change (the car has a normal 3-speed and reverse sliding gear transmission). The surviving Compound is a 1906 model (and thus not older than the car on the picture, which comes from a 1905 advert). On the basis of its external features however I doubt if 1906 is correct, 1907 or even 1908 would be more appropriate.

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20 Juni 2015, 03:43

It is a 1907 Compound automobile. It was built in NY, USA. It was a two cylinder motor with the third cylinder a compressor and also used to cool the exhaust off the two cylinders. This car also had an early form of power brakes using the third cylinder for the air to power the brakes.

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20 Juni 2015, 01:25

It is a 1908 Compound made in Middletown CT USA 3 cylinders the center one used the exhaust from the other two for additional power like a compound steam engine.

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What is it? Quiz #397

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