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Originally Posted by Mountain Dew View Post
When did the Fat Man Steering Wheel appear?
When they stopped using a tiller for steering!
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The steering wheel didn’t arrive until 1894, when French engineer Alfred Vacheron was looking for an advantage in that year’s Paris to Rouen race. Figuring that it would provide more precise control, he installed one on his Panhard et Levassor. Vacheron didn’t win the race, finishing 11th, but the steering wheel was here to stay.
And Actually, the Tiller was kept in use on some cars up into the Teens.
One of the last Tiller steering cars was built and left the Cleveland, Ohio car factory
of Raush and Lang well into the middle teens.
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