Kensington Automobile Company

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Kensington Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1904
Seat Buffalo , New York , USA
management William Knowles
Branch Automobiles

Kensington Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company emerged from the Kensington Bicycle Company in 1899 . The seat was in Buffalo in the US state New York . In August 1899 the first electric car was completed. The brand name was Kensington . In 1901 steam cars were added. In 1902 there was an agreement with Darracq for license production, but this was not carried out. In the same year, however, a model with a gasoline engine appeared . Antoine Fils et Compagnie from Belgium was the engine supplier. From 1903 there were only gasoline cars. Production ended in 1904.

William Knowles, the president, then founded the Knowles Automobile Manufacturing Company in the same town.

vehicles

The electric cars from 1899 to 1902 were bodied as Stanhope . One illustration shows an open two-seater with a convertible top.

The 1901 steam car was a runabout . The steam engine had two cylinders and developed 4 hp . In 1902 there was the Steam Vehicle No. 1 as runabout and the Steam Vehicle No. 3 as Surrey .

The petrol cars from 1902 to 1904 had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 12 hp. It was mounted in the front of the vehicle. The chassis had a wheelbase of 183 cm . The structure as a tonneau offered space for four people.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1899-1900 Electric Stanhope
1901 Electric Stanhope
1901 Steam Runabout
1902 Electric Stanhope
1902 Steam Vehicle No. 1 Runabout
1902 Steam Vehicle No. 3 Surrey
1902 Gasoline 2 12 183 Tonneau
1903-1904 Gasoline 2 12 183 Tonneau

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. 801-802 (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. 819 (English).

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. 801-802 (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. 819 (English).