Gas Engine & Power Company

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Gas Engine & Power Company
legal form Company
founding around 1885
resolution around 1908
Reason for dissolution Merger with Charles L. Seabury & Company
Seat Bronx , New York , USA
Branch Engines , automobiles

1905 speedway

Gas Engine & Power Company was an American manufacturer of engines and automobiles .

Company history

FW Ofeldt founded the company. The seat was in Morris Heights, an area in the Bronx in the US state of New York . Mainly it made engines. In 1904 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Speedway . The designer was Budd D. Gray. The Charles L. Seabury & Company was involved in the production. Motor vehicle production ended in 1905. That year WS Howard joined the company.

Around 1908 it came to the merger with Charles L. Seabury & Company for Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company .

Products

Engines were supplied to the Howard Automobile Company .

Only one car model was on offer. It had a four-cylinder engine with 28 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The chassis had a wheelbase of 274 cm . The structure was a tonneau with side doors and space for five people. The original price was 4700 US dollars . One source describes this price as exceptionally high.

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. 1365 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1482 (English).

Web links

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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. 1365 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1482 (English).