Electra Manufacturing Company

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Electra Manufacturing Company Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1914
resolution 1915
Seat Los Angeles , California , USA
management William Piddington
Branch Automobiles

Electra Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Henry M. Crowther, Jules E. Haschke, James F. Lane, Stewart L. Rothrock and James B. Sturdevant founded the company on April 10, 1914. The company was based in Los Angeles , California . William Piddington was president. They started producing automobiles in the same year. The brand name was Electra . Vehicle production ended in 1915. Batteries continued to emerge. After 1915 the track of the company is lost.

There was no connection with the Storage Battery Power Company from Chicago , which also sold vehicles as Electra .

vehicles

There were two different electric cars on offer . Both were powered by an electric motor. The Model C had a 229 cm wheelbase and a body as a two-seater roadster without doors. The range was given as 64 km. The original price was 750 US dollars .

The Model D had a chassis with 244 cm wheelbase and the same structure, but with two doors. A more powerful battery enabled a range of 120 km. The vehicle cost $ 1,250.

Model overview

year model Wheelbase (cm) construction
1914-1915 Model C 229 Roadster 2-seater
1914-1915 Model D 244 Roadster 2-seater

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. 524 (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. 488 (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. 524 (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. 488 (English).