Production chronology1913–1914
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
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Motorette (Kelsey) / Model record
Motorette (Kelsey)Model M-1
Production1913–1914
Recorded originUnited States
ClassTwo-seat three-wheel runabout
Power10 hp
Shorter-wheelbase final passenger Motorette. Series manufacture effectively collapsed in September 1913 after defective or sabotaged outsourced engines damaged the marque; the 1914 listing represents the final offered/development range and does not prove sustained volume production. Sources conflict on representative twin displacement (approximately 57 versus 72.2 cu in), so no single capacity is forced across the range.
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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.