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Antique Engine Database
Stephen M. Balzer Co.
In the early 1890s, Stephen M. Balzer developed his own 3-cylinder air-cooled rotary engine of 10 horsepower, and shortly thereafter began to manufacture these units. by 1894, he had set up his own company to produce automobiles utilizing this engine, thus designing the first American automobile to use a rotary engine.
history
An 1894 Balzer still exists in Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. By 1898 the Company was reorganized in the Balzer Motor Carriage Co. of the Bronx. Although auto production stopped in 1900, at least one make of car – the New York-built Carey- was using a 5-cylinder Balzer-type engine in 1906.
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