Crane Motor Car Company

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Crane Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
resolution 1914
Reason for dissolution Acquisition by Simplex Automobile Company
Seat Bayonne , New Jersey , USA
management Henry Middlebrook Crane
Branch Automobiles

Crane Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Henry Middlebrook Crane had made some speedboats . In Crane & Whitman Automobile Works from Bayonne in New Jersey , he also experimented on passenger cars . In 1910 he founded the new company in the same town. In 1912 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Crane . Production ended at the end of 1914. In total, fewer than 40 vehicles were built.

The Simplex Automobile Company of New Brunswick took over both the company and Henry Crane. The new vehicles were officially offered under the Simplex brand and the model name Crane , which was often erroneously shortened to Crane-Simplex .

Henry Crane bought what was left of the Simplex Automobile Company in 1922, founded the Crane-Simplex Company in Long Island City , New York, and re-manufactured automobiles that were now officially called the Crane-Simplex .

vehicles

The only model was the Six , initially in the version as Model 3 and later as Model 4 . A six-cylinder engine with an L-head and 9237 cm³ displacement propelled the vehicles. It made 110 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 345 cm . The original price was 8000 US dollars for the chassis. Various body manufacturers produce the bodies.

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. ↑ a b c 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)