Eastman Automobile Company

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Eastman Automobile Company
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

  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. 514-515 (English).
  2. ↑ 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).