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The Paterson car started as a typical Mid-Western motor buggy. The Paterson Model 14 had solid rubber tyres and an air-cooled 2-cylinder engine, with planetary transmission and double chain-drive. By 1910 this Paterson car had evolved into a car with a 30hp 4-cylinder engine, sliding-gear transmission and shaft drive, in three body styles. The use of 4-cylinder engines was continued in Paterson cars into 1915 when the line was complemented by a Paterson car with a 6-cylinder, 4.7-litre engine and a longer wheelbase. After 1915, only six-cylinder Paterson cars were made. It is likely that all these Paterson cars engines were built by Continental; at all events from 1919 until 1923 this was the engine make. The body styles of the Paterson car were conservative and there were no outstanding types. The distinguishing feature of the later Paterson cars was a radiator and bonnet cross-section with sharp shoulders, probably in imitation of the Packard.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; GMN
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