Eagle Coach Work

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Eagle Coach Work Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1980
resolution 2001
Seat Amherst , New York , USA
management Thomas P. Hill
Branch Automobiles
Website http://eaglecoachwork.com

Eagle Coach Work Inc. was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded on April 28, 1980. First Lancaster , later Buffalo and finally East Amherst is handed down as the seat . All three cities are in the state of New York . The last owner was Thomas P. Hill. The company manufactured automobiles and kit cars . The brand name was Eagle , possibly with the addition of Coach Works , although the company name Coach Work did not contain the suffix S. In 2001 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

Replicas of classic automobiles were on offer . First of all, models from Alfa Romeo , Bugatti and Frazer Nash are mentioned . They were based on a chassis from the VW Beetle .

Replicas of the Jaguar SS100 and Jaguar XK 120 followed later . The chassis of the former had a wheelbase of 274 cm . The other model has a wheelbase of 259 cm and a vehicle length of 447 cm. The body was made of fiberglass . Various four-cylinder engines from Ford as well as V6 and V8 engines were available.

An overview of US car brands that begin with Eagle

brand Manufacturer Marketing start End of marketing Location, state
eagle Eagle Automobile Company (New York) 1905 1905 Buffalo, New York
eagle Eagle Automobile Company (New Jersey) 1905 1907 Rahway, New Jersey
eagle Eagle Motor Carriage Company 1908 1908 Elmira, New York
eagle Eagle Automobile Company (Missouri) 1909 1909 St. Louis, Missouri
eagle Eagle-Macomber Motor Car Company 1914 1915 Chicago, Illinois
eagle Eagle Electric Automobile Company 1915 1916 Detroit, Michigan
eagle Durant Motors 1923 1924 Lansing, Michigan
eagle Eagle Manufacturing 1978 1984 Campbell, California
eagle Eagle Coach Work 1980 2001 Amherst, New York
eagle Eagle (US car brand) 1987 1998 Detroit, Michigan
Eagle Macomber Eagle-Macomber Motor Car Company 1916 1918 Sandusky, Ohio

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Eagle (X).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 478. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d opencorporates (English, accessed on March 11, 2017)
  4. ↑ a b d'Auto (Dutch, accessed March 11, 2017)
  5. ↑ a b c d Company information (accessed on March 11, 2017)