Crescent Motor Car Company (Missouri)

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Crescent Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1914
Seat St. Louis , Missouri , USA
Branch Automobiles

Crescent Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles from Missouri . Another source uses the name Crescent Motor Company .

Company history

Edward L. Beebe, William H. Foster, Albert G. Nelson and George A. Root founded the company in April 1914. The company was based in St. Louis . The first vehicle was built in May 1914. Crescent was planned as the brand name . Two more cars followed in July. In that month they were retroactively branded Superior . Production ended in the same year. One source says that not many vehicles were made after July 1914.

There was no association with the Superior Automobile Company and Briggs & Stratton , which used the same brand name a few years earlier. A few years earlier there was a Crescent Motor Car Company of the same name in Michigan .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a four-cylinder engine . The specified displacement is 201.4 cubic inches (3300 cm³). The chassis had a 295 cm wheelbase . Either roadsters and touring cars or just a touring car with five seats were available. The new price was in the range of 1000 US dollars .

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. 1451 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1550 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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. 1451 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 277 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Lou Phillips: Cars (accessed March 16, 2019)
  4. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1550 (English).