Economy Motor Car Company

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Economy Motor Buggy Company
Economy Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1912
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Joliet , Illinois , USA
management William R. Everett
Branch Automobiles

Economy in a closed Dutch car museum, dated 1908 by the auction house.
View of the left drive chain

Economy Motor Car Company , previously Economy Motor Buggy Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Fort Wayne , Indiana , in 1908 . William R. Everett was president. He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Economy . The Success Car Buggy Manufacturing Company went to court because the Economy patents used. Economy then moved to Kankakee , Illinois . The shortage of suitable labor in this city ensured that the headquarters were moved to Joliet in Illinois a little later . The name was changed at the end of 1909. From 1910 the focus was on the production of commercial vehicles . Car production ended in 1911. In 1912 it went bankrupt .

The Pratt Manufacturing Company took over what was left of the company.

There was no connection with the Economy Motor Company , which a few years later also manufactured Economy vehicles.

vehicles

Highwheelers were on offer . With the big wheels, they were well suited for the bad roads of the time. The chassis had a wheelbase of 218 cm . The engine drove the rear axle via two chains. The open body was called the High Wheel Buggy . Depending on the design, it offered space for two or four people.

The Model B appeared in 1908. It had a single cylinder engine with 10 hp .

In 1909 Model E and Model G added to the range. They had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine that was specified with 22/24 hp.

A two-seater with the serial number 361 stood in a Dutch car museum for years until it was auctioned on November 18, 2017. Another two-seater exists in the USA.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1908-1911 Model B 1 10 218 High wheel buggy
1909-1911 Model E. 2 22/24 218 High wheel buggy
1909-1911 Model G 2 22/24 218 High wheel buggy

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. 516-517 (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. 481 (English).

Web links

Commons : Economy Motor Car Company  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

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. 516-517 (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. 481 (English).
  3. ↑ Auction 2017 (accessed January 20, 2018)
  4. ↑ www.conceptcarz.com (accessed January 20, 2018)