Eaton Motor Carriage Company

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Eaton Electric Motor Carriage Company
Eaton Motor Carriage Company
legal form Company
founding 1898
resolution 1900
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Boston , Massachusetts , USA
management Howard F. Eaton
Branch Automobiles

Eaton Motor Carriage Company , which emerged from the Eaton Electric Motor Carriage Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Howard F. Eaton was an electrical engineer based in Boston , Massachusetts . He made an electric car within six weeks , which he presented at an exhibition in Boston in 1898. He then founded the vehicle production company. The brand name was Eaton , possibly with the addition of Electric . The name was changed in February 1899. At the end of 1900 it went bankrupt .

In total, only a few vehicles were sold. Royal Sheldon, owner of the Palace Theater , was one of the buyers. Other vehicles were exported to London .

vehicles

Only electric cars were on offer. The vehicle in the exhibition is called a light two-seater. One illustration shows an open two-seater with a convertible top.

One source thinks that the name change could mean that vehicles with other types of drive were also planned, but there is no evidence for this.

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. 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. 480 (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. 515 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 480 (English).