In 1899,John Walter Christie established the Christie Iron Works to construct and refurbish strengthened gun turret components for U.S. and British warships, and with the proceeds built a state-of-the-art machine shop in Manhattan. Shortly after, Christie began to work on a line of automobiles, and a metal lathe developed for his maritime machining work inspired him to focus his efforts on vehicles driven by the front wheels. Christie felt that an automobile drive system should pull the vehicle like a train and not push it like a boat. Christie focused on a
front-wheel drive system in which the engine was situated transversely between the front wheels. He believed this arrangement would create light, simple, high-speed auto. Christie’s front-wheel drive car was the first of its kind built in the United States.
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