This remarkably well preserved child’s vehicle is my oldest pedal car. A steering wheel was first fitted to a full-size automobile in Europe in 1894, and used on the world’s first mass-produced car, the Benz. So this may be the first instance of a steering wheel on a juvenile version.
Because it is motivated as a velocipede tricycle, with pedals in the front wheel, and its upholstery is similar to the Benz and also horse carriages, this could have been manufactured in the late 1890s – in which case, it might be one of the first pedal cars!
View in the Online Bicycle Museum
BICYCLE COLLECTORS CURATED ONLINE AUCTION, CHRISTMAS 2024 – JANUARY 2025
This Timed Auction is live from 20th of December 2024 to 26th of January, 2025. Highest bid wins.
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