John William Lambert (Born:?-Died:?) was an American automotive pioneer, inventor, and automobile manufacturer. In 1891, Lambert built a three-wheeled, gasoline-powered automobile with a single cylinder, four-stroke engine. Some historians cite this as the first automobile in the United States (others cite the automobile built by the Duryea Brothers). After several more prototypes, Lambert began to manufacture automobiles under the Union name. This was a tiller-steered four wheeler. In 1905, Lambert formed the Lambert Automobile Company and began producing automobiles in his Anderson, Indiana factory.
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David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles ISBN 0-7858-1106-0
