Edward Butler (1862–1940) was an English inventor who produced an early three-wheeled petrol automobile, marketed as the Butler Petrol Cycle. Butler having applied for a patent, granted as No. GB 15598, in November 1887, for: "Improvement in Hydrocarbon Motors and in the "Method of their Application for the Propulsion of Tricycles and other Light Vehicles", and built a prototype at F.B. Shuttleworth, of Erith, London.
- Occupation
- car designer, inventor
- Born
- 1862
- Died
- 1940
