Elbert Motor Car Company

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Elbert Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1915
Seat Seattle , Washington , USA
management Nicholas F. Wilson
Branch Automobiles

Elbert Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Seattle , Washington state in the late summer of 1914 . Nicholas Wilson as president, LH Beamish, LW O'Connell, a Mr. Elbert as donor and namesake and the designer FW Topkin were involved. They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Elbert . In March 1915 it was announced that production would continue at the former Goudy Machine Company facility in Sunnyvale , California . However, nothing was produced there anymore. In 1915 the company was dissolved.

Wilson later became involved in the Emerson Motor Company .

vehicles

The only model was called the Cyclecar . However, it did not meet the criteria. The four-cylinder engine was water-cooled . It had 63.5 mm bore , 101.6 mm stroke , 1287 cm³ displacement and made 10 hp . It drove the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The chassis had a wheelbase of 259 cm . The open roadster offered space for two people in a row. The original price was 295 US dollars .

A light delivery van was also available on the same basis.

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. 520 (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. 487 (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. 520 (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. 487 (English).