Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Vivian Lewis: motor engineering in Adelaide 1898 - 1905
- In
- 2013 South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference - Transactions
- Imprint
- Engineers Australia, South Australia Division, Adelaide, 2013, pp. 53-61
- Abstract
Within months of the first motor vehicle exhibition in Adelaide in May 1898, a small internal combustion engine was under construction at the cycle works of Mr Vivian Lewis. Built under the supervision of Lewis works manager T P O'Grady in a modern factory in McHenry Street, now existing only as a laneway to give access from Gawler Place to the old Adelaide Stock Exchange building, South Australia's first petrol engine was called on to drive first a lathe, then a "triplet" (a three-person bicycle), a tandem, and finally the colony's first motor car which took to the streets in November 1900. This paper explores the mix of expertise and capabilities that were required to launch the motor industry in South Australia, and the first rise and fall of motor manufacturing in the state more than 100 years ago.
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- 2013 South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference - Transactions edited by Venus, Richard (Adelaide: Engineers Australia, South Australia Division, 2013), 89 pp. Details