LPC Motor Company

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Lewis Motor Company
L. PC Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1913
resolution 1916
Seat Racine , Wisconsin , USA
management William Mitchell Lewis
Number of employees 280
Branch Automobiles

LPC Motor Company , originally the Lewis Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

William Mitchell Lewis, Rene M. Petard, and James M. Cram had automotive experience with the Mitchell Motors Company . The designer Petard, who came from France, had previously also worked at Darracq , Fiat , Itala and Unic . In November 1913 they founded the Lewis Motor Company . The seat was in Racine , Wisconsin . In the same year they changed the company name to LPC Motor Company to avoid confusion with Mitchell-Lewis. In 1914 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Lewis .

The outbreak of the First World War meant that Petard had to return to France. The company could not cope with this loss for long. Production ended in 1916. Lewis made sure that all 280 employees found another job nearby.

There were no affiliations with the Lewis Motor Vehicle Company and the Lewis Cycle Company , which previously used the same brand name.

vehicles

The only model was the VI . In the Roman numerals it stands for the number 6. The six-cylinder engine was a long-stroke engine . It had 88.9 mm bore , 152.4 mm stroke , 5676 cm³ displacement and 60 hp .

The chassis had a wheelbase of 343 cm . In the first year there was only one touring car with six seats. From 1915 a roadster with two seats was added to the range.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1914 VI 6th 60 343 6-seater touring car
1915 VI 6th 60 343 6-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster
1916 VI 6th 60 343 6-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster

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. 860 (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. 895 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 860 (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. 895 (English).