Hewitt (vehicle brand)

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Hewitt was an American vehicle brand.

Brand history

Edward Ringwood Hewitt founded the Hewitt Motor Company in New York City in 1905 . He acquired the Selden patent from Standard Motor Construction Company . In 1905 the production of commercial vehicles began and in 1906 that of passenger cars . The brand name was Hewitt . In 1907 car production ended.

In 1909 it was taken over by the Metzger Motor Car Company .

From 1911 the company name is again called Hewitt Motor Company . There is also the Hewitt Motor Car Company .

In 1912 there was a merger. In addition to Hewitt, the International Motor Company , which was already manufacturing trucks as Mack , and the Saurer Motor Company were involved . The new company later became Mack Trucks .

The manufacture of Hewitt trucks ended in 1914.

vehicles

Passenger cars

In 1906 there were two models to choose from. The smaller one had a single cylinder engine with 8 hp . The chassis was available in two lengths. The town car and sedan with four seats each had a wheelbase of 213 cm . The wheelbase of the small touring car with two seats was 30 cm shorter. There was a connection to the Adams Manufacturing Company from England , which offered vehicles as Adams Hewitt . There was also the 20/30 HP . It had a four-cylinder engine that was specified with 20/30 hp. The wheelbase was 284 cm. The touring cars and limousines mentioned are both five-seater.

In 1907 the single-cylinder engine developed 10 hp. There are touring cars and town cars with five seats, a small touring car with two seats and a limousine. Runabouts with two and three seats were created on the shorter wheelbase . The four-cylinder model was replaced by the 50/60 HP . It had a V8 engine from Société Antoinette . It was the first car from the USA with a V8 engine, but only the second with an eight-cylinder engine , as the HH Buffum Company had previously brought out an eight-cylinder boxer engine . The engine was reported in Scientific American in November 1907 . It was specified with 50/60 hp. The wheelbase was 284 cm. There was a choice of touring cars with five seats, limousines and landaulets .

year model cylinder drilling Hub Displacement (cm³) Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1906 8 HP 1 120.65 152.4 1742 8th 183 small touring car 2-seater
1906 8 HP 1 120.65 152.4 1742 8th 213 Town Car 4-seater, Limousine 5-seater
1906 20/30 HP 4th 101.60 139.7 4530 20/30 284 5-seater touring car, 5-seater sedan
1907 10 HP 1 120.65 152.4 1742 10 183 Runabout 2-seat and 3-seat
1907 10 HP 1 120.65 152.4 1742 10 213 5-seater touring car, 2-seater small touring car, 5-seater town car, limousine
1907 50/60 HP 8th 101.60 114.3 7413 50/60 284 5-seater touring car, landaulet, limousine

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commercial vehicles

The trucks were specified with a payload of two to ten tons . They had planetary gears and chain drives.

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. 701-702 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 689 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 701-702 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 689 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 81.
  4. ↑ Benson Ford Research Center (accessed May 11, 2019)
  5. ↑ American Automobiles (accessed May 11, 2019)
  6. ↑ Scientific American (accessed May 11, 2019)
  7. ^ Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era. Essential Specifications of 4,000+ Gasoline Powered Passenger Cars, 1906-1915, with a Statistical and Historical Overview. McFarland & Company, Jefferson NC 2013, ISBN 978-0-7864-7136-2 , p. 84.