Eureka Motor Buggy Company

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Eureka Motor Buggy Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1909
Seat Beavertown , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania , USA
Branch Automobiles

The Kearns Storm Queen Doctor's Special from 1909 is practically identical to the Eureka Model D 12/14 HP Motor Buggy from 1907–1909

The Eureka Motor Buggy Company in Beavertown, Pennsylvania was an American manufacturer that produced automobiles for the Eureka brand. This company existed from 1907 to 1909.

There was no connection to the other US manufacturers of car brand Eureka : Eureka Automobile Agency , Eureka Motor Car Company , Eureka Motor Car Manufacturing Company and Eureka Company .

description

The cars of the Eureka Motor Buggy Company was a fairly simple construction Highwheeler with purchased, air-cooled two-stroke - valve engines of the brand Speed-well , a friction that its force to a (possibly two) drive chain (s) passed on, but narrow with very large wooden spoke wheels Hard rubber tires and optional steering lever or steering wheel . It was less common for a highwheeler to place the engine in the bow under a hood. The front was reminiscent of that of the Chase trucks.

The Eureka wasn't particularly expensive; As a model D 12/14 PS (according to the calculation method at the time) with a two-cylinder engine, it cost from US $ 650. There was also the model L 15/18 PS with a three-cylinder engine . Both were runabouts known as motor buggy . They didn't sell well.

Maxwell Kearns could be won as an investor . He reorganized the company in 1909 as the Kearns Motor Buggy Company . It appears that afterwards some vehicles were sold as Eureka before the brand name was changed to Kearns .

In particular, Kearns commercial vehicles were successful for a long time.

Models

model Construction period Cylinder / cooling power wheelbase Superstructures
D 12/14 HP 1907-1909 2 row, air-cooled 12 bhp (8.8 kW) 2032 mm Motor buggy 2 seats
L 15/18 HP 1907-1909 3 row, air-cooled 12 bhp (12 kW) 2032 mm Motor buggy 2 seats

The wheelbase was taken from the identical Kearns highwheeler Storm Queen Doctor's Special .

Model D became virtually unchanged to the Kearns Highwheeler Storm Queen Doctor's Special in late 1909 or early 1910 ; Model L was probably only received in 1910 with the Kearns Model G resp. L an indirect successor.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark, Jr. Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 . (English)
  • GN Georgano (Ed.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. Dutton Press, New York, 2nd edition (hardcover) 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 . (English)
  • GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 . (English)
  • Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. Published by SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, ISBN 0-7680-1431-X . (English)

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