Elgin Automobile Company

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Elgin Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1901
Seat Elgin , Illinois , USA
management Howard H. Brown
Branch Automobiles

Elgin Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

A group of Chicago businessmen founded the company in 1899. They moved to the factory of the dissolved Elgin Sewing Machine and Bicycle Company in Elgin , Illinois . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Winner . Production ended in 1901. A total of 15 vehicles were built.

There was no connection to the Winner Motor Buggy Company , which a few years later also marketed passenger cars as Winner.

vehicles

The vehicles had a gasoline engine . At first it was a single-cylinder engine with 3 hp . In the end it was a two-cylinder engine . The setup was an open runabout with space for two people. The original price was 675 US dollars .

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. 1556 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1754 (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. 1556 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1754 (English).