Charles T. Crowden

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Charles T. Crowden
legal form
founding 1898
resolution 1901
Seat Leamington Spa
management Charles Crowden
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Charles T. Crowden was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles Crowden founded the company in Leamington Spa in 1898 and began manufacturing automobiles. The brand name was Crowden . Production ended in 1901.

vehicles

Crowden made experimental vehicles, some of which he also sold. This included a car with a steam engine and a vehicle with a gasoline engine and 10 hp .

In 1900 he used a single cylinder engine with 5 HP in a vehicle . The engine power was transmitted to the drive axle by means of belts. The transmission had three gears. This vehicle has been preserved and belongs to the collection of the Museum of British Road Transport in Coventry .

He sold a steam engine fire engine to the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company in Worcester and a gasoline engine to the Leamington Spa Fire Department.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • 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 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.