How to start the 1899 Wolseley 3.5hp voiturette

See how to start the British Motor Museum's 1899 Wolseley 3.5hp voiturette - the first four-wheeled Wolseley car.

This was Herbert Austin’s third design for Wolseley and his first
four-wheeled car. It formed the basis of the production models
that Wolseley introduced in 1901. The gilled-tube radiator
surrounding the engine was a trade-mark of the early Wolseley
cars but was discarded together with horizontal transverse engines
when Austin left the company in 1905.

The specification includes a front-mounted engine with a single
horizontal cylinder which projects forward, as the crankshaft
is transverse in relation to the chassis. There is belt drive to a
centrally mounted gearbox and chain drive to the rear wheels.
Steering is by a tiller rather than a wheel.

Austin drove this prototype in the Thousand Miles Trial in 1900
and was awarded first prize in his class. The car completed the
course at 12mph in England and 10mph in Scotland (the legal
limits at the time), only matched by eleven other competing cars.

The Wolseley was one of the exhibits in Britain’s first motor
museum which opened in 1912. The museum was the brainchild of
Edmund Dangerfield, proprietor of The Motor magazine and hence
was known as The Motor Museum. It was located in London, at
Waring and Gillow’s furniture store on Oxford Street.

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