The car built in the early 1900's by Charles Trescowthick in Bent Street, Adelaide. It was powered by
an air-cooled 2¾hp De Dion. He built 2¾hp De Dion-powered motorcycles, one of which he
took to an event in Victoria (p.39). His main business was acetylene generators for lighting houses
and public buildings. That was a dangerous pursuit as acetylene is inclined to explode, which
happened when he was soldering a gas receiver. He survived that, but succumbed to meningitis on the
battlefield in 1916. He built the car shown, but it was not a success, so the motor was removed and
fitted to a tri-car, also built by him. The photo below of a motorless car being horsedrawn in the
1906 'Prosh' procession shows that it remained intact to then, but disappeared after the event. The
tri-car survives, unrestored, but with the original motor.
Terry Parker of the VVMCSA.
