The Crescent Motor Truck Company

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The Middletown Buggy Company
The Crescent Motor Truck Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1916
Seat Middletown , Ohio , USA
management Harry H. Elwood
Number of employees 200 (around 1910)
Branch vehicles

The Crescent Motor Truck Company , previously The Middletown Buggy Company or The Middletown Motor Buggy Company , was an American company in the vehicle industry

prehistory

Harry H. Elwood ran the Decatur Buggy Company in Greensburg , Indiana . In 1901 he moved to Middletown , Ohio and reorganized his business as the New Decatur Buggy Company . The new plant was twice as big. The company employed over 200 people and produced around 20,000 carriages annually . Bankruptcy followed in April 1908 . One source states that disregarding the automobile's success led to its decline.

Company history

On September 29, 1908, The Middletown Buggy Company was founded in Middletown. It made carriages. Elwood became a manager. in the subsidiary The Middletown Buggy Company , he introduced the automotive industry. The brand name was Middletown . In 1911 both companies went bankrupt.

Elwood placed thereupon trucks brand Crescent ago. The new company name was The Crescent Motor Truck Company . Initially, the company was rented in the premises of the former Middletown Buggy Company . It soon moved to Hamilton, Ohio, according to a source . Production ended at the end of 1913; The next bankruptcy followed in 1914. On April 11, 1916, the company was finally dissolved. It seems that it failed because of its product, but because of legacy issues from the bankruptcy of the New Decatur Buggy Company . This process had dragged on for five years.

Car

The Middletown Motor Buggy was a highwheeler . The construction of these vehicles was simple and basically consisted of installing an internal combustion engine in a horse buggy . Two versions are mentioned: a model with a two-cylinder engine , two drive chains and steering wheel controls and a model - probably similarly constructed - with a four-cylinder engine from the Rutenber Motor Company . Nothing more is known about the technology. So it is unclear which type of gear was used. Usual were planetary or friction . Such a conversion also made it necessary to replace both axles. At the front, the turntable was usually replaced by a stub axle steering ; a steering wheel like the one in midletown was an improvement on the more commonly used steering lever. A drive axle was needed at the rear to transfer the power from the chains to the wheels.

commercial vehicles

In the US alone, 14 different motor vehicles carried the Crescent brand name between 1900 and 1914 ; In particular, a commercial vehicle manufacturer in New York is mentioned, to which, however, no reference can be proven. The Crescent Motor Truck Company in Middletown manufactured light and medium-sized trucks with payloads of 1, 2 and 3 sh tn (905, 1815 and 2720 kg, respectively). Again, little is known about the technology, but it appears that Rutenber four-cylinder engines were also used. A comparison with the well-known Packard truck (2 to 5 sh tn or 1815–4530 kg) was definitely positive for Crescent .

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. 972 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1034 (English).
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. 100 years of history. 2500 brands from 65 countries. BLV Buchverlag Munich, Vienna and Zurich, 2nd edition, 1992; ISBN 3-4051-2974-5 .
  • Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola WI, 1996; ISBN 0-87341-368-7 .
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The international automobile encyclopedia - 125 years of brands and models , PC-DVD, United Soft Media Verlag (2008), ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI, 1979; ISBN 0-87341-024-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d opencorporates (English, accessed October 20, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k 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. 972 (English).
  3. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1034 (English).
  4. ^ A b c G. N. Georgano, G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI, 1979, p. 159
  5. ^ A b c Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publ. Iola WI, 1996; P. 77
  6. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. 100 years of history. 2500 brands from 65 countries. BLV Buchverlag Munich, Vienna and Zurich, 2nd edition, 1992; P. 258
  7. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The international automobile encyclopedia - 125 years of brands and models. PC-DVD, United Soft Media Verlag, 2008; ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .