1906 Adams-Farwel rotary engine

[bakerhillpins]

This is cool.    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0XbqHUAI-0

[JB400]

I'll have to watch it another time.  I'm wondering how it is all hooked up to make the car move.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

I'm wondering how it is all hooked up to make the car move.

Same here. Rotary engines have a fixed crank & the block rotates around the internals. On airplanes had the prop bolted to the block which gave the forward motion, but there must be some sort of gearing on the block which drives the car that we can't see. One downfall to rotary powered aircraft engines is that there was no throttle. Engine speed was controlled by killing the spark. I wonder if the same holds true with this vehicle

No matter, a rotary engine is bizarre , no matter what it's powering.

[John_Kunkel]

I was wondering the same thing about the speed control....his description of the carburetor wasn't clear on that.

[polywideblock]

has a chain driven final drive  ,very cool car . wouldn't want to stick your hand in the engine compartment while it was running 

[ws23rt]

It is truly amazing what can be made to work. It does seem that throttle response would be slow. Maybe the drive connection was the speed control instead.