The Auto-Tri Automobile & C. W. Kelsey and I. Sheldon Tilney

Auto-Tri
Kelsey & Tilney
Haverford, PA
1899

C. W. Kelsey and I. Sheldon Tilney built the three wheeled Auto-Tri shown below in 1899 while attending Haverford College in Haverford, PA. It’s the only one of it’s kind. The Auto-Tri was equipped with a single cylinder four cycle air cooled engine.

The Auto-Tri was donated to the Smithsonian Museum in 1923 by Joseph R. Darling.

1899 Auto Tri

C. W. Kelsey and I. Sheldon Tilney the above Auto-Tri in 1899. C. W. Kelsey then built the Motorette in 1911 and a line of Touring Cars, Roadsters and Sedans in the early 1920s called the Kelsey.


1911 Kelsey Motorette



1923 Kelsey Touring Car

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