Erie Motor Car Company

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Erie Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1916
resolution 1919
Seat Painesville , Ohio , USA
management Frank Meket
Branch Automobiles

Erie Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded on April 20, 1916 in Painesville , Ohio . Frank Meket was President, WE Brown General Manager, and H. Percy Secretary and Treasurer. Percy was previously a sales agent for the Vulcan Manufacturing Company . They took over Vulcan and repaired these vehicles. In addition, the production of own automobiles began. The brand name was Erie . During the First World War , trucks were also made . Production ended in 1919.

There was no association with the Erie Motor Carriage and Manufacturing Company , which used the same brand name a few years earlier.

vehicles

The vehicles had a water-cooled four - cylinder engine with 33 hp . The chassis had a 300 cm wheelbase . Model 33 was bodied as a five-seater touring car and Model 34 as a two-seater roadster .

At the end of 1919 a much more expensive four-cylinder model was announced, but apparently no longer in production.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916-1919 Model 33 4th 33 300 5-seater touring car
1916-1919 Model 34 4th 33 300 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. 539 (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. 505 (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. 539 (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. 505 (English).