This is a photograph that I took on the
Crescent, part of the A6 in Salford, during the Lancashire Automobile Club’s
Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1973. Not really
the most photogenic place to pick in view of the road works that were in place!
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It’s the 1904 Quadrant Tri-car of Dr C J Brooks
and the programme of the event had this information about the car4:
11. Dr.
C. J. Brooks, Newthorpe, Nottinghamshire,
1904 Quadrant Tri-Car “Carette”, 5 h.p.
Built at the Quadrant cycle manufacturing works
in Birmingham, the “Carette” model has two completely separate single cylinder
engines (left hand 400 c.c. and right hand 450 c.c.) with drive to a common
countershaft. This shaft has a cone leather clutch at either end so that two
speeds can be selected to drive the single rear wheel. Speed is controlled by
advancing or retarding the ignition once the mixture of throttle and air has
been set. It is one of only three Quadrants still in existence.
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