Back in January I heard from
Diane Davis in California, who was looking for information on the 1901 Frisbie
Red Devil car that was in may father’s museum. She is a Frisbie descendant, and
was in the midst of putting together a book about the Frisbie family of inventors.
Her project has come to
fruition and the book is out! Red
Devils & Penny Shooters.
(The Penny Shooters refers to the cast iron mechanical toy banks made by the J&E Stevens Company, owned by the Frisbee family.)
As Diane says on the back of
the book, “Russell Abner Frisbie would create and manufacture gasoline motors,
Frisbie marine engines, and take part in the birth of the automobile industry
with the creation of his Frisbie ‘Red Devil’ car.”
I
did find a small photo of the Frisbie that my father owned. The photo is only
about 3”x5” and there is a date of 1949 on the back (meaning it was in the Melton Museum in Norwalk, Connecticut). I looked at the sign
in front of the car with a magnifying glass, and here is what it says:
1901
Frisbie
1
cylinder water cooled planetary transmission
Built
in Cromwell, Conn. and presented to the
Melton Museum by its builder R.A.
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