Crouch Automobile Manufacturing and Transportation Company

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Crouch Automobile Manufacturing and Transportation Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1900
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Baltimore , Maryland , USA
management DA Clark
Branch Automobiles

Crouch Automobile Manufacturing and Transportation Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

prehistory

W. Lee Crouch had already built a vehicle with a gasoline engine in 1894 in his mechanical engineering company Pierce & Crouch in New Brighton , Pennsylvania . In 1896 a single cylinder engine was developed for Carlos C. Booth, who installed it in a vehicle. This vehicle was called the Booth-Crouch . More engines followed by 1899. In January 1899, Crouch designed a steam car and drove it to Baltimore , Maryland .

Company history

W. Lee Crouch founded the company in Baltimore in 1899 with a few partners. Crouch was Superintendent, DA Clark President, J. Stewart MacDonald Vice President, and HC Fossett Treasurer. The brothers Frederick and Lewis Davidson were also involved. The production of automobiles continued until the bankruptcy in 1900. The brand name was Crouch . In total, only a few vehicles were built.

There was no connection with Gray & Couch , which manufactured vehicles of the same name.

vehicles

A steam engine propelled the vehicles. It was a V2 engine with 8 hp . The maximum speed was given as 72 km / h. An illustration shows a runabout .

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. 395 (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. 352. (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. 395 (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. 352. (English)