Production chronology1895–1896
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
curated ↗2 years
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De La Vergne / Model record
De La VergneMotor Drag
Production1895–1896
Recorded originUnited States
ClassExperimental motor carriage
Power4 hp
Larger Valentine Linn & Son-bodied De La Vergne carriage, reported to seat six and in one source as many as eight. Water-jacketed cylinders used a 250 lb reserve said to last six hours. A Drag entered the snowy 1895 Chicago Times-Herald contest and withdrew when its wheels spun, but earned a $50 design award for engine counterbalancing; this was the existing road vehicle, not a separate racer.
Chronology ledger
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Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.
Research notes
Two Motor Drags in the documented initial batch; no lifetime company ledger survives.