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Enger Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturer based in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1909 to 1917 . The founder was Frank J. Enger.

history

In 1909, Enger began manufacturing high-wheeled automobiles with iron-studded wooden spoke wheels and two-cylinder engines. In the following year, he turned to a more modern car, the Enger 40 , which was equipped with smaller, rubber-tyred wooden spoke wheels and four-cylinder engines.

In 1915 the 6-50 model came out with a six-cylinder engine and the following year the Twin-Six with a V12 engine. A special feature of this engine was the possibility for the driver to switch off a cylinder bank by operating a lever in order to reduce consumption when the full engine power was not required. It is not known how much of the full 55 bhp (40 kW) engine power was left under these circumstances. In any case, this was an early example of cylinder deactivation, which is modern again today .

On January 4, 1917, Enger shot himself after a brief illness. Although he had left his vice president with instructions to continue running the company, his widow filed for bankruptcy to save the company's assets of US $ 330,000. In March 1917, the production of the Enger vehicles was ended.

Models

model Construction period cylinder power wheelbase
B / C / D 1909 2 row 14 bhp (10.3) 2235-2286 mm
40 1910-1914 4 row 40 bhp (29 kW) 2946-3048 mm
6-50 1915 6 row 30 bhp (22 kW) 3175 mm
Four 1916-1917 4 row 36 bhp (26.5 kW) 2692 mm
Twin Six / Twin Unit 12 1916-1917 12 V 55 bhp (40 kW) 2946 mm

Production numbers

The annual production figures are shown below.

year Production number
1909 171
1910 376
1911 573
1912 623
1913 411
1914 218
1915 712
1916 1113
1917 317
total 4514

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. 536-537 (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. 536 (English).