Crescent Motor Company

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Crescent Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1915
Seat West Virginia , USA
management
  • Ralph Northway
  • Frank W. Enslow
Branch Automobiles

Crescent Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ralph Northway, who previously worked for the Ohio Motor Car Company , and Frank W. Enslow founded the company in 1912. The seat was in the US state West Virginia . They took over the insolvent Ohio Motor Car Company and its plant in Carthage , Ohio . They continued their production of automobiles. The brand name was Crescent . Production ended in 1914. In 1915, the Puritan Machine Company took over what was left of the company.

There was no association with the other manufacturers of Crescent brand vehicles: Crescent Automobile & Supply Company and Crescent Motor Car Company .

vehicles

The Ohio model corresponded to the previous model. It had a four-cylinder engine with 29 hp . The wheelbase was 295 cm. The structure as an open touring car offered space for five people.

The Royal model was added. A six-cylinder engine from Northway Motors Corporation with 38 hp powered the vehicles. The chassis had a wheelbase of 335 cm. These cars were also bodied as five-seater touring cars.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1913-1914 Ohio 4th 29 295 5-seater touring car
1913-1914 Royal 6th 38 335 5-seater touring car

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. 389-390 (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. 347. (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. 389-390 (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. 347. (English)