Edwards Engineering

The Edwards Engineering Company was an American automobile manufacturer based in San Francisco, California between 1949 and 1955 . Founder was Sterling H. Edwards .

description

As early as 1950 Edwards had won first prize at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance with a one-off called the R-26 Special Sport Roadster .

In 1954 a prototype of the five-seater convertible was first built. The heavy and luxurious car was equipped with an Oldsmobile V8 engine . The wheelbase was 2718 mm and the GRP body was 4547 mm long. The series model was then built with an overhead V8 engine from Lincoln . The 5195 cc large aggregate afforded 205 bhp (151 kW) at 4200 min ^-1 . The price of the 2.8 to. heavy Edwards was US $ 4995, -. Only two copies were sold.

In 1955 a revised model came out that powered a Cadillac V8 engine . From 5426 cc it attracted 250 bhp (184 kW) at 4,600 min ^-1 . The price had risen to US $ 7,800 and three cars were sold in this final year of production.

A total of six vehicles were sold.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Edwards (II).
George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 484. (English)
John Gunnell: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Krause Publications, Iola 2002. ISBN 0-87349-461-X .
Consumer's Guide (Editor): Encyclopedia of American Cars from 1930 , Publications International, 1993, ISBN 0-7853-0175-5 . (English)

Web links

Website of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance (English; search term "Edwards")

Individual evidence

↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Edwards (II).
^ ^A ^b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 484. (English)

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Edwards (II).

[Beaulieu-2] A ^b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 484. (English)