Jewel Motor Car Company

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Forest City Motor Car Company
Jewel Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1909
Seat Massillon , Ohio , USA
management
  • Herbert A. Croxton
  • Forrest M. Keeton
Branch Automobiles

The Jewel Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturer. The company was founded as the Forest City Motor Car Company by WE Stone , George J. Weitz , Philip Lehr , Frank R. Wall and Charles Eby in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906 . Cleveland was also called "Forest City" - hence the name.

description

In 1905 a prototype was created , which was called Forest City .

Before the start of series production, the company moved to Massillon (Ohio) , 100 km south , where Charles Eby was born. Then began the construction of a high-wheeled runabout with a single cylinder engine , which was named Jewell (with two L!). In this and the following year these cars could not really establish themselves on the market, and so it was decided in 1908 to phase out these highwheelers and to build more modern and larger cars instead.

To make the failure of the first product forget, the new car was named Jewel (with an L!) And equipped the four-cylinder model with an engine from the Rutenber Motor Company . These touring cars and taxis sold better, so in 1909 the whole company was renamed the Jewel Motor Car Company .

Herbert A. Croxton had already joined the company in 1907 and became its president. At the end of 1909 he found a new partner in Forest M. Keeton and the company was renamed again. The new Croxton-Keeton Motor Company stopped manufacturing the Jewel and produced cars under its own name.

One source states that around 1,000 vehicles were made.

Models

brand model Construction period cylinder power wheelbase Superstructures
Forest City 1905 1
Jewell B / C / D / E 1906-1907 1 8 bhp (5.9 kW) 1524-1727 mm Runabout 2 seats
Jewel D / E 1908 1 10 bhp (7.4 kW) 1778 mm Runabout 2 seats
Jewel 40 hp 1908-1909 4 row 40 bhp (29 kW) 3048 mm Roadster 3 seats, touring car 5 seats, sedan 7 seats
Jewel 20/30 hp 1909 4 row 30 bhp (22 kW) 2819 mm Landaulet 4 seats, taxi 5 seats

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. 600 and p. 784 (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. 793 (English).

Web links

Commons : Jewel Motor Car Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 600 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 784 (English).
  3. ↑ a b 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. 793 (English).
  4. ↑ American Automobiles: The Jewel Automobile & The Forest City Motor Co. (accessed October 3, 2018)