Quadricycle

In 1896 Henry Ford named his first vehicle design the "Quadricycle." it ran on four bicycle wheels, with an engine driving the back wheels.[1]

Quadricycle, with an i, was a popular term for human or motorized four wheel bike-like vehicles around the turn of the 19th to 20th century

Quadricycle refers to vehicles with four wheels.

In modern-day France, a quadricycle is a 4-wheel car that cannot go faster than 45 km/h (28 mph), weighs less than 425 kg (937 lb), and has a maximum power of 4 kW (5.4 hp).[2][3] See also the USA's Low-speed vehicle class.

• Ford Quadricycle, Henry Ford's first design[1]
• Burnard Jarstfer Quadricycle (replica based on Ford Quadricycle)[4]
• Orient Quadricycle (aka Orient Autogo)[5]
• Truffault Quadricycle[6]
• Le Rudge Quadricycle Tandem[7]
• De Dion Bouton 1900 Quadricycle[8]
• De Dion Bouton Victoria Quadricycle[9]
• De Dion Bouton "La Marquise" Quadricycle[9] (Steam runabout)
• Peugeot Type 3 Quadricycle[10]
• 1889 Daimler Quadricycle[11]

Additional motorized four-wheelers:

• Duryea Motor Wagon
• Benz Velo

Quadricycle, quadracycle, quadcycle, quadrocycle and quad all refer to vehicles with four wheels. More specifically these terms may refer to:

• All-terrain vehicle, also known as quad or quad bike
• Automobile, the first experimental steam automobiles were termed steam quadricycles
• Low-speed vehicle, referred to in some countries as a quadricycle
• Motorised quadricycle, European classifications for light four-wheeled motorized vehicles: light quadricycles, category L6e, and (heavy) quadricycles, category L7e
• Quadracycle, a four-wheeled style of cycle
• Velomobile, an enclosed human-powered vehicle