Etnyre Motor Car Company

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Etnyre Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
resolution 1911
Reason for dissolution Underfunding
Seat Oregon , Illinois , USA
management ED Etnyre
Branch Automobiles

Etnyre Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

ED Etnyre had already announced at the end of 1908 that he wanted to manufacture vehicles. In 1910 he founded the company in Oregon , Illinois . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Etnyre . At the end of 1911 the company was dissolved due to underfunding.

A total of ten vehicles were built. One source states that six of these were sold. The other four were used up during test drives.

vehicles

A self-made four-cylinder engine powered the vehicles. He developed 50 hp from a displacement of 7700 cc . The chassis had a wheelbase of 325 cm . The new price was about 3500 US dollars , depending on the structure .

The Model E from 1910 to 1911 was a touring car with seven seats. The Model N was a four-seater roadster that was only available in 1910. The Model T was born in 1910 as Cl. C. labeled with five seats, which could stand for Close-Coupled Touring Cars , and in 1911 referred to as Double Rumble with four seats.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1910 Model E. 4th 50 325 7-seater touring car
1910 To model 4th 50 325 Roadster 4-seater
1910 Model T 4th 50 325 Cl. C. 5-seater
1911 Model E. 4th 50 325 7-seater touring car
1911 Model T 4th 50 325 Double Rumble 4-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. 549 (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. 508 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 549 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 508 (English).