EW Hart & Company

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EW Hart & Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution ?
Seat Luton , UKUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
management Ernest W. Hart
Branch Automobile manufacturer

EW Hart & Company was a British importer and manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ernest W. Hart founded the company in Luton in 1900 and began importing vehicles from the Lohner works . Between 1900 and 1903 he also manufactured his own automobiles. The brand names were Hart and Lutonia . Production ended in 1903. Hart later sold Austro-Daimler vehicles .

vehicles

Brand name Hart

One model was a purely electric car . It had an electric motor with 2.5 hp in each of the wheel hubs, so it had four-wheel drive . Another model was a hybrid electric car . The gasoline engine developed 40 hp.

Brand name Lutonia

This model was powered by a single, rear-mounted electric motor with 2 hp. Bergmann from Berlin supplied the engine. The open body offered space for two people.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.