1910 Adams Veteran Car Range brochure cover.
American-born Edard R. Hewitt had helped Sir Hiram Maxim to build a large steam plane in 1894. He later designed a "gas buggy" along the lines of an Oldsmobile; this machine was built by the Adams Manufacturing Company.
1910 Adams Veteran Car Range brochure cover.
The Adams' epicyclic transmission lead to the marque's slogan, "Pedals to push, that's all".
Hewitt eventually returned to the United States to manufacture similar cars under his own name, after which more conventional shaft-driven cars with vertical engines were produced (beginning in 1906).
Models offered included two and four-cylinder ones and one of the first British V8s; this last had a 35/40 hp (26/30 kW) engine based on the French Antoinette model (an aeroengine for which Adams were agents). But the V8 was plagued by crankshaft breakages.
In 1910, the company produced an advanced 16 hp (12 kW) model with front-wheel brakes; it came with compressed-air starting, tire-inflating, and jacking equipment.
The company folded for good in 1914.
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