Crown Motor Car Company

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Crown Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1913
resolution 1914
Seat Louisville , Kentucky , USA
management BF Lambert
Branch Automobiles

Crown Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in March 1913 in Louisville , Kentucky . BF Lambert, with experience at Lambert Automobile Company, was President, AB Lambert Vice President and CH Lambert Secretary and Treasurer. Automobile production began in 1913. The brand name was Crown . Production ended in 1914. The Lamberts then founded the Hercules Motor Car Company in New Albany , Indiana .

There were no affiliations with the Detroit Auto Vehicle Company and the Crown Motor Vehicle Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

The plans for an ordinary vehicle with a four-cylinder engine that should produce 30 hp were not implemented.

Instead, a lighter vehicle appeared. Although it was called a cycle car, it did not meet the criteria for cycle cars. A four-cylinder engine with 1700 cm³ displacement and 14 HP power drove the rear axle via a friction gear and a cardan shaft . The chassis had a 229 cm wheelbase . Only a few vehicles were made.

This was followed by a standard model, the Model A. It was bodied as a roadster .

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)