Crown Magnetic

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Crown Magnetic was an American automobile brand.

Brand history

The Owen Magnetic Motor Car Corporation of Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania , received a major order for 500 chassis from exporter JL Crown in 1920 . The plan was to export the chassis to England . Le Grice Elers Ltd. from London they should sell. A full-page advertisement from November 1920 has survived. The brand name was Crown Magnetic . The end came in 1922. A total of around 20 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The vehicles had a six-cylinder engine with OHV valve control and 6864 cm³ displacement . The chassis alone cost 1950 pounds . British body manufacturers made the bodies. Four-seat touring cars have been handed down. One vehicle had the British registration number MB 1623 .

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. 399 (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. 354. (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. 399 (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. 354. (English)
  3. ↑ The History of Owen Magnetic - The Car of A Thousand Speeds (accessed December 9, 2017)
  4. ↑ SNAPSHOT 64: Crown Magnetic 1923 From The Society of Automotive Historians in Britain. (English, accessed December 9, 2017)