Baker & Elberg Electric

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Baker & Elberg Electric was an American automobile manufacturer .

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That of HC Baker and JR Elberg in Kansas City (Missouri) Founded in 1894 built a runabout with electric drive . It was an unspectacular car with minimal, high-lying body , ellipticity-transverse leaf springs , wire wheels from wood with solid rubber tires and perpendicular standing steering column with steering lever. The power was transmitted to the rear wheels via chains. The builders sold the vehicle to a Texas banker named Stone the following year . He had it brought to New York , where it was reworked by the electrical engineers J. A. Barrett and A. Frank Perret according to Stone's wishes. This makes the Baker & Elberg Electric one of the earliest examples of a subsequently tuned vehicle with changes that have not been made or authorized by the manufacturer.

JR Elberg then worked as a car dealer and ran the Holcker-Elberg Company as a branch for Peerless automobiles and Federal commercial vehicles. The Holcker-Elberg Manufacturing Company manufactured bodies and hearses.

There is no connection to the Baker Motor Vehicle Company , manufacturer of the well-known Baker Electric from 1900 to 1916.

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