Butikofer Motorcycle

Butikofer 1896

Edouard Butikofer of Switzerland displayed a "motocycle" (motor bicycle) on the Peugeot stand at the Paris Salon of 1898. The Butikofer is discussed in "The Horseless Age" of April 1896, and in a short article in The Automobile Magazine of December 1899

In 1906 he created a flat-twin engine which he mounted in a tricycle.

Système BUTIKOFER
BREVETÉ EN FRANCE, EN ALLEXAGNE, ET OANS TOUS LES AUTRES PAYS
Les brevets portent sur le de l'application du cylindre du moteur comme axe fixe de la roue motrice.

L'Anatomie du moteur à essence. Butikofer (p.809) La locomotion automobile, 21st Dec 1899.

Sources: Zhumoriste, archive.org, cnum.cnam.fr.

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