Edwards Motor Car Company

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Edwards Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1913
Reason for dissolution Acquired by John North Willys
Seat Manhattan , New York , USA
Branch Automobiles

Edwards Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

HJ Edwards and CG Stoddard had previously worked at Stoddard-Dayton and the United States Motor Company . They founded the company in February 1912. The seat was in Manhattan and the plant in Long Island City , both in New York City . They began producing automobiles in December 1912, which were marketed as Edwards-Knight . In July 1913, moving to Louisville , Kentucky was considered but not carried out. In October 1913, John North Willys von Willys-Overland bought the company and its patents . Production ended with that.

vehicles

Only Model 25 was on offer . It had a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 4500 cc . It was a slide motor under license from Charles Yale Knight . Its engine power was given as 40/50 hp . Other special features were the starter and parts of the suspension based on patents from Frederick W. Lanchester . The chassis had a 305 cm wheelbase . A touring car with four or five seats, a speedster with two seats, a roadster with two seats, a sedan with seven seats and a landaulet with seven seats were available as superstructures .

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. 518 (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. 484 (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. 518 (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. 484 (English).