Crane-Simplex Company

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Crane-Simplex Company
legal form Company
founding 1922
resolution 1920s
Seat Long Island City , New York , USA
management Henry Middlebrook Crane
Branch Automobiles

Crane-Simplex Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Henry Middlebrook Crane previously ran Crane & Whitman Automobile Works and Crane Motor Car Company and worked for the Simplex Automobile Company . In 1922 he took over what was left of Simplex and founded a new company. The seat was in Long Island City , a borough of Queens in New York City . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was officially Crane-Simplex for the first time . Vehicle production ended in the same year. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

In addition, he was busy with the service and repair of simplex vehicles.

vehicles

The vehicles had a six-cylinder engine with around 110 hp . The wheelbase was 366 cm. The company only made chassis . The superstructures were made by external body manufacturers.

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. 386 (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. 345. (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. 386 (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. 345. (English)