Erie Motor Carriage and Manufacturing Company

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Erie Cycle & Manufacturing Company
Erie Cycle & Motor Carriage Company
Erie Motor Carriage and Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1896
resolution 1902
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat Anderson , Indiana , USA
management JB Lott
Branch vehicles

Erie Motor Carriage and Manufacturing Company , emerged from Erie Cycle & Manufacturing Company and Erie Cycle & Motor Carriage Company , was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

The Erie Cycle & Manufacturing Company was founded in Anderson , Indiana in 1896 . She made bicycles . In 1898 it became the Erie Cycle & Motor Carriage Company . JB Lott was president. He also took up the production of automobiles. The brand name was Erie , occasionally Werts . Besides, the name Herald was at least planned. In 1902 the name was changed to Erie Motor Carriage and Manufacturing Company . Halladay Motors Corporation took over the company in late 1902 .

There was no association with the Erie Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name a few years later.

vehicles

Small cars were on offer. It was powered by a single-cylinder engine made in-house. The new prices were between 350 and 600 US dollars .

In 1902 there were experiments with a steam car .

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).

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. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 106 (English).