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The original Otto car was made in two models, a 10hp Otto car with 2-cylinder horizontal engine, and a 20hp Otto car with a 4-cylinder vertical engine. Both Otto cars had chain drive. The following year 2- and 4-cylinder Otto cars were both of 10hp; they had De Dion type bonnets with gilled tube radiators mounted low between the front dumb irons. There is little trace of Otto cars from 1903 until the appearance of the F.L. models in 1909. Said to have been named after the Eiffel Tower (pronounced Eff Ell), they were conventional 4-cylinder cars with 12/16hp Monobloc engines. In 1912 a 6-cylinder 18/24hp Otto car was introduced.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; GNG
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