Emancipator Automobile Company

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Aurora Motor Works
Emancipator Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1909
Seat Aurora , Illinois , USA
management
  • James Selkirk
  • William George
  • AB McCord
Branch Automobiles

Emancipator Automobile Company , previously Aurora Motor Works , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

James Selkirk, William George and AB McCord founded the company in Aurora , Illinois in 1907 . McCord was the production manager. They began producing automobiles that same year, marketed as the Aurora . In late 1908 the plant was sold to the Black Manufacturing Company . The three owners continued anyway. The Emancipator Automobile Company was either a renaming or a re-establishment. A newly developed model was sold from January 1909 both as the Aurora , Emancipator and Emancipator brands. Production ended in 1909.

George and McCord were also associated with the Monarch Automobile Company , while Selkirk was associated with the Kirksel Motor Car Company .

There was no affiliation with the Aurora Automobile Company from the same town, which used the same brand name for their vehicles until 1906.

vehicles

The first model was designed by DD Culver, who previously ran the Practical Automobile Company . It had a two-cylinder engine . The engine developed 14 hp in 1907 and 1908 in Model A , 20 hp in 1908 in Model B and 16 hp in 1909. The wheelbase was a uniform 203 cm. All models were runabouts . They had three seats in 1907 and 1908 and only two in 1909.

The Emancipator had a four-cylinder engine with 20 hp. The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a two-speed planetary gearbox and a cardan shaft . The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm. A five-seater touring car and a four-seater tonneau were available .

Model overview

year brand model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1907 Aurora Model A 2 14th 203 3-seater runabout
1908 Aurora Model A 2 14th 203 3-seater runabout
1908 Aurora Model B 2 20th 203 3-seater runabout
1909 Aurora 2 16 203 Runabout 2-seater
1909 Aurora Emancipator 4th 20th 254 5-seater touring car, 4-seater tonneau
1909 Emancipator 4th 20th 254

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. 79 and p. 532 (English).
  • 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. 100 and p. 494. (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. 79 and p. 532 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 100 and p. 494. (English)