The Rochester was one of the many light steam buggies of the period. t had a vertical 2-cylinder engine, single chain drive, and tiller steering. Like most of its contemporaries, it had full elliptic springs at the rear, and a single transverse elliptic at the front, but an "unusually flexible frame" was said to allow 15 inches of vertical movement by either front wheel without appreciable disturbance of body level.[1]
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The Rochester Carriage Motor Company placed this advertisement in the Scientific American on May 17, 1902, p. 358.
[1]Georgano, G. N., Encyclopedia of American Automobiles, (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1968), p. 172.
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