Lane Light Car Manufacturing Company

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Lane Light Car Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1915
Seat Wichita Falls , Texas , USA
management Theodore F. Lane
Branch Automobiles

Lane Light Car Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Theodore F. Lane had built vehicles with the Wichita Falls Motor Company as early as 1914 . He founded the new company in Wichita Falls , Texas in 1915 and continued production. The brand name was Lane . Production ended in the same year. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

There was no association with Lane Motor Vehicle Company , which used the same brand name a few years earlier.

vehicles

The only model was the Light Car ie, small car called. It was a further development of the Wichita Falls , which was still referred to as the Cyclecar , although it did not meet the criteria. An air-cooled two-cylinder engine from the Spacke Machine & Tool Company powered the vehicles. 88.9 mm bore and 93.218 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 1157 cc . The engine drove the rear axle via a planetary gear and belt. The chassis had a wheelbase of 274 cm and a track width of 112 cm . The curb weight was given as around 454 kg.

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. 839 (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. 839 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 171 (English).