Eastman Automobile Company
Eastman Automobile Company | |
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legal form | Company |
founding | 1900 |
resolution | 1901 |
Reason for dissolution | reorganization |
Seat | Cleveland , Ohio , USA |
management | Henry F. Eastman |
Branch | Automobiles |
Eastman Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .
Company history
Henry F. Eastman had worked with Alexander Winton . He experimented for a long time on electric cars and steam cars . In 1898 he manufactured an electric car as a prototype . In 1900 he founded the company in Cleveland , Ohio, together with coachbuilder H. Jay Hayes and some local business people . The production of steam cars began. The brand name was Eastman . Motor vehicle production ended in November 1900. Car bodies continued to be produced until May 1901. Then the reorganization to the Eastman Metallic Body Company followed .
AM Benson took over the vehicle division and founded the Benson Automobile Company in the same town.
vehicles
The electric car was called the Electro Cycle . It was a tricycle with a single front wheel. It was steered with a long steering lever. A tubular frame formed the basis. The single-seater body was made entirely of steel , possibly a first for a vehicle from America.
The steam car had a steam engine with a cylinder . It drove the rear axle via a chain. The open body offered space for two people.
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. 514-515 (English).
- George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 479 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 514-515 (English).
- ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 479 (English).