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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 130939" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>After much research, we've given full credit for that machine to Louis-Guillaume Perreaux. Decades ago someone, incorrectly we believe, called it the Michaux-Perreaux based on the resemblance of the frame to the Michaux bicycle. Ever since then other writers have just copied that attribution. However, the frame has the same almost-vertical steering geometry already in use for five decades on a number of ‘draisienne’ hobby-horses, to which Perreaux substituted an S-shaped backbone of hollow tubing to create a lighter and stronger frame that gives additional clearance for the engine. Another of Perreaux’s innovations is that he used threaded steel to make the tension of the spokes adjustable.</p><p></p><p>Remarkably, it survived the Franco-Prussian War, WWI and WWII to still be with us today. This is the only time it has been nearly this far from Paris, and I'll go out on a limb and predict this also will be the only time anyone in Australia ever will have the opportunity to see it (even when it's in Paris it lives most of the time in the museum's storage where it can't be seen).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 130939, member: 2806"] After much research, we've given full credit for that machine to Louis-Guillaume Perreaux. Decades ago someone, incorrectly we believe, called it the Michaux-Perreaux based on the resemblance of the frame to the Michaux bicycle. Ever since then other writers have just copied that attribution. However, the frame has the same almost-vertical steering geometry already in use for five decades on a number of ‘draisienne’ hobby-horses, to which Perreaux substituted an S-shaped backbone of hollow tubing to create a lighter and stronger frame that gives additional clearance for the engine. Another of Perreaux’s innovations is that he used threaded steel to make the tension of the spokes adjustable. Remarkably, it survived the Franco-Prussian War, WWI and WWII to still be with us today. This is the only time it has been nearly this far from Paris, and I'll go out on a limb and predict this also will be the only time anyone in Australia ever will have the opportunity to see it (even when it's in Paris it lives most of the time in the museum's storage where it can't be seen). [/QUOTE]
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