Aurora Automobile Company

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Aurora Carriage Top Company
Aurora Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding before 1905
resolution 1906
Seat Aurora , Illinois , USA
management
  • AJ Jeffrey
  • JM Spiker
  • ED Pinney
Branch Automobiles

Aurora Automobile Company , previously the Aurora Carriage Top Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Aurora Carriage Top Company of Aurora , Illinois originally made parts for carriages . AJ Jeffrey, JM Spiker and ED Pinney ran the company. In 1905 they recruited WH Howe from the Chicago Automobile Company as a vehicle designer , renamed the company the Aurora Automobile Company and began manufacturing automobiles. The brand name was Aurora . Production ended in 1906.

There was no connection with the Emancipator Automobile Company from the same town, which from 1907 onwards used the same brand name for their vehicles.

vehicles

The only model was a touring car . The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm . A four-cylinder engine with 30 HP power drove the rear axle via a friction gear and cardan shaft .

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 79 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 100. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 79 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 100. (English)