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Adams-Farwell: An automotive oddity
This is one of the more obscure with a unique 5 cylinder engine that rotates around a stationary crankshaft.
Adams-Farwell - YouTube This is the ONLY 'Adams-Farwell' automobile left in existence. They were made in Dubuque between 1890-1913. This one uses a 50 HP rotary engine similar to engines in old airplanes. With 50 HP, it probably really scooted down the roads back then !
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Very few people know what a true rotary engine is.
I quit getting into arguments with guys insisting a Wankel is a rotary, and insisting WW1 LeRhone aircraft engines are radial. Once you prove they are wrong, they don't like you ever again. That is a cool video of a running rotary, it seems with that much rotating mass things can go very bad very quickly....and I wondered how the airplanes handled all the gyroscopic effect.
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