Harris (steamcar)-1938
H.R. Harris was a steam engineer employed by the city of Detroit. Mr. Harris designed and operated steam-powered electric generating plants. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Harris...
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H.R. Harris was a steam engineer employed by the city of Detroit. Mr. Harris designed and operated steam-powered electric generating plants. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Harris...
This propeller-driven iceboat was built using an illustration featured in a 1924 Popular Mechanics magazine. It features a Heath Henderson, Model B-4 motorcycle piston engine. The Henderson Motorcycle Company,...
Heinkel, like fellow airplane maker Messerschmitt, was prohibited from making aircraft after WWII. In 1953 Heinkel began building a high end 4-stroke scooter called the Tourist. Scooter sales...
Constructed in 1932, this one-of-a-kind, propeller driven car was discovered in a barn in France in 2000 having been placed there by the original owner in the late...
Hercules was founded in 1886 by Carl Marschütz as a bicycle manufacturer in Nuremberg, Germany. The first Hercules motorcycle debuted in 1904. Marschütz, being Jewish, fled to America during...
The Hercules W-2000 was the first rotary powered motorcycle offered for sale to the public through a dealer network. The W-2000, introduced at the German Ifma Show in 1970,...
In early 1940, Rudy Stoessel, Paul Erdos, and Burt Chalmers opened a small body shop in Hollywood called Coachcraft, Ltd., and began building custom bodies for movie stars and...
Named the high wheeler for obvious reasons, the 48” wheel puts the seat at 53” above the ground, placing the rider’s head between 7 and 8 feet off...
This unusual Hobbycar B612 amphibian was introduced to the world at the 1992 Paris Motor Show. It is a mid-engined, jet-drive, forward-control four-seater, designed to be offered as...
The Passport multi-purpose vehicle seen here was the third and last model produced by the short-lived French manufacturer Hobbycar. Perhaps manufacturer is the wrong term, as even the...
In the period immediately after the Second World War, many talented people wanted to “have a go” at producing their own vehicle. One such person was a Michael Hoffmann,...
At the beginning of the 20th century, very few people had any knowledge of how or even why automobiles worked. The German Chauffer School, founded in 1904, was created...
The Honda Beat was built for the Japanese Domestic Market, aka JDM. This mid-engine, two-seat convertible Kei-class car was produced from May 1991 to February 1996, with nearly...
Japanese Engineer Soichiro Honda established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in 1948. He oversaw Honda’s expansion from cobbling together mopeds from bicycles and generator motors in a wooden shack to...