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Olds Motor Works Runabouts: 1901 - 1902 - 1903
by Theodore E. Barthel. ca. 1904
21 pages with blueprints

Eli Olds produced the light and dependable Olds Runabout (aka Curved Dash) model beginning in 1901. It is credited as being the first mass-produced gasoline powered motor vehicle. The Runabout was produced until 1907.

This unassuming wood-bodied Runabout was easy to identify; with its prominent toboggan-shaped curved dash, distinctive floorboard, and tiller steering. Despite its feeble appearance, the Curved Dash horseless carriage was versatile, reliable and readily available.

This booklet contains copies of blueprints containing detailed descriptions, specifications, graphs and diagrams for the 1901, 1902 and 1903 Olds Runabouts. Some of the information included are:

Transmission
Wheel base
Carriage speed
Fittings
Cooling system
Motor construction
Battery
Muffler
Carburetor (1903)
Stationary engine dimensions
Vaporizer
Tire tube (Goodrich and Dunlap)
Muffler
Winton transmission
Transmission gears (1903)
Engine dimensions
Shark
Sprocket diameters for Whitney standard roller chains
Formulas for bevel gears
Turnbuckle dimensions
Drill for pipe taps
Machine screws
Standard slotted nuts
Standard steel taper, pin and reamer dimensions
Balanced ball handle dimensions
Proportions for wrenches
Formulas for laying out miter gear blanks
Nuts and bolts dimensions
Pressure and volume
Sleeve nut dimensions
Ottocycle and entropy graph
Properties of Calcium Chloride (manufactured by Solvay Process Co. in Detroit)
I.H.P of an engine by computation graph
Mean Effective Pressures (M.E.P.) graph
Ingredients required for one cubic yard of mortar (Portland Cement)
Tubing, lubricator, packing and pump testing reports (1902)

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