Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company
| Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 19th century |
| resolution | 20th century |
| Seat | Anderson , Indiana , USA |
| Branch | Engines |
The Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company was founded in the second half of the 19th century by John W. Lambert as part of the corporate conglomerate around the Buckeye Manufacturing Company .
history
When Lambert was in his early twenties, he formed a partnership with his father under the company name JW Lambert & Company . The company manufactured grave fork handles and wooden spokes. In late 1891 he moved to Ohio City (Ohio) after unsuccessfully attempting to manufacture and sell “horseless carriages”. There he ran a shop for agricultural supplies, a granary and a scrapyard. In 1893 Lambert came to Anderson (Indiana) and moved some of his machines there. This was the nucleus of his factory in Anderson. The factory consisted of 24,000 m² brick buildings and was equipped with the most modern machines of the time. The Lambert-Gesellschaft manufactured agricultural equipment and stationary petrol engines for farms and other commercial applications. In 1893 the works were named Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company and Buckeye Manufacturing Company . About 250 people were employed there at that time.
The factory was equipped with machinery to make automobiles in 1900, with Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company making the engines and Buckeye Manufacturing Company other parts for the automobiles. BF Lambert was president of the company, George A. Lambert was secretary, while John A. Lambert was CFO and plant manager. The company's capital stock was US $ 100,000, which would translate into millions of US dollars today.
Before the Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company built automobile engines, it was engaged in the construction of stationary engines. A partial description of the Lambert stationary engine reads: “The engines of the Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company are all horizontal four-stroke engines. They are available in 15 power levels from 1 bhp (0.74 kW) to 40 bhp (29 kW). The valves are mushroom-shaped and driven by a camshaft with a reduced worm drive. The exhaust valve is opened by a lever, which runs transversely under the cylinder base, which is provided with a roller at the end, which is operated by the camshaft. The outlet is cooled by a water jacket and the cylinder head also has a cooling jacket so that no leak can occur in the cooling system and cooling water penetrates the cylinder. "
The Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company supplied an instruction manual for each engine. It was a manual for the company's gasoline engines, stating how one could tell how the machine was working just by its noise.
literature
- Biography of John W. Lambert, written by his son January 25, 1935, Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection
- Dolnar, Hugh: Automobile Trade Journal , Article: The Lambert, 1906 Line of Automobiles , Chilton Company, January 10, 1906
- Bailey, L. Scott: Historic Discovery: 1891 Lambert, New Claim for America's First Car , Antique Automobile magazine, Issue 24, No. 5, October-November 1960
- Wise, David Burgess: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles , ISBN 0-7858-1106-0
- Dittlinger, Esther et al .: Anderson: A Pictorial History , G. Bradley Publishing, (1990), ISBN 0943963168
- Georgano, GN: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile , Taylor & Francis, (2000), ISBN 1-5795829-3-1
- Huffman, Wallace Spencer: Indiana's Place in Automobile History in Indiana History Bulletin , Issue 44, No. 2, Indiana Historical Bureau, Indianapolis (February 1967)
- Huhti, Thomas: The Great Indiana Touring Book: 20 Spectacular Auto Tours , Big Earth Publishing, (2002), ISBN 1-9315990-9-2
- James, Wanda: Driving from Japan , McFarland, (2005), ISBN 0-786417-3-4X
- Kimes, Beverly Rae: Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942 , Krause Publications, Iola WI (1996), ISBN 0-8734142-8-4
- Madden, WC: Haynes-Apperson and America's First Practical Automobile: A History , McFarland, (2003), ISBN 0-7864139-7-2
- Scharchburg, Richard P .: Carriages Without Horses: J. Frank Duryea and the Birth of the American Automobile Industry , Society of American Engineers (SAE), (1993), ISBN 1-5609138-0-0
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Forkner, John L .: History of Madison County, Indiana , The Lewis Publishing Company, New York and Chicago (1914)
- ↑ The Horseless Age: The Automobile Trade Magazine , The Horseless Age Company (1902)
- ↑ Anderson Morning Herald, June 24, 1904, p. 3; March 14, 1905, p. 8; March 21, 1905, p. 1; April 30, 1905, p. 2; May 10, 1905, p. 1; May 24, 1905, p. 1; June 16, 1909, p. 1; November 18, 1909, p. 8; January 27, 1911, p. 8; March 11, 1911, p. 8
- ^ Anderson Sunday Herald, Anderson (Indiana), Nov. 16, 1958
- ↑ Brandon, Rodney H .: Who is Who in Anderson , self-published (1906)
- ^ A b Hiscox, Gardner Dexter: Gas, Gasoline and Oil-engines , Norman W. Henley, (1910)