Otto's Puzzle #1410 - Arthur W. Ball's 1914 Cycleplane

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and share your knowledge what this is, and who built it
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[Allan L]

You don't often see a car with a table for the dog's dinner

[Otto Puzzell]

 

[guido66]

Bedelia?

[Otto Puzzell]

A tad more obscure...

[guido66]

I don't suppose it's from Norway?

[Otto Puzzell]

Nope

[guido66]

pile of rocks in the background...   Irish?

[Otto Puzzell]

Not from the Emerald Isle, but a place with an Island name. However, the name of the island is not longer the same as the name of the place. .

[guido66]

From one of the countless Scottish isles?

[Otto Puzzell]

Not from there.

[Otto Puzzell]

Pros?

[Paul Jaray]

I know it. 

[Allemano]

I know it. 

...but?

[Paul Jaray]

Let's say that I knew this car before, but I was told the answer before it was posted here by Otto...now I know it twice, but it seems unfair to reply (not for me I knew it...)

[pnegyesi]

Any relations to Tamplin?

[Otto Puzzell]

Any relations to Tamplin?

None that I am aware of.

[Paul Jaray]

..put me in coach...

[Otto Puzzell]

Proceed.

[Paul Jaray]

CYCLEPLANE - Westerly, Rhode Island - (1914)
The Cycleplane was a cyclecar whose mechanical specification was typical for vehicles of its type but whose look decidedly was not. Arthur W. Ball was its designer, and he claimed streamlining was the factor he kept most in mind in coming up with the Cycleplane body. Set on a "truss bridge" frame, the car sported shelf-like fenders that ran the lenght of the car and were purported to have a shock-assorbing effect, although most probably they were more useful as armrests for the vehicle's two passengers. Actually the car looked less like a plane than a boat. In addition to the standard two-cylinder air-cooled Spackle-engined roadster with planetary transmission and belt drive, the Cyclecar Company of Westerly also planned to offer more sophisticated four-cylinder water-cooled models with three-speed slideing gear transmissions and shaft drive. But production apparently never began. It is believed that Arthur Ball's prototype was his first and last Cycleplane.

Standard Catalog of American Cars.

[Otto Puzzell]

That's the ticket!

As to the Island: despite the name, most of Rhode Island is in fact on the mainland. The name Rhode Island and Providence Plantations derives from the merging of two colonies, Providence Plantations and Rhode Island. Providence Plantations was the name of the colony founded by Roger Williams in the area now known as the City of Providence. Rhode Island was the area now known as Aquidneck Island, which now comprises the city of Newport and the towns of Middletown and Portsmouth, the largest of several islands in Narragansett Bay.