Three-Wheeler Thursday

[Originally posted at On The Nightstand on Tuesday, October 13, 2016]

A Tale of Two Motorettes

But not the 1901 – 1903 four-wheeled Motorette that became the Pierce-Arrow. Or the four-wheeled Motorette that the Holley Motor Company (today’s Holley Carburetor, sort of) made in 1902. This is Three-Wheeler Thursday, not Four-Wheeler Friday

The first is the Motorette as made by the C.W. Kelsey Manufacturing Company out of Hartford, Connecticut from 1910 to 1912.

From the September 15, 1910 edition of Motor Age magazine
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And the second is the one made by The Motorette Corporation of Buffalo, New York from 1946 to 1948.

Photo by Nina Leen for LIFE magazine, 1949