Lebanon Motor Works

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Upton Motor Company
Lebanon Motor Works
legal form
founding 1904
resolution 1907
Seat Lebanon , Pennsylvania , USA
management Colcord Upton
Branch Automobiles

Lebanon Motor Works , previously Upton Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Colcord Upton left Beverly Manufacturing Company in the summer of 1903 . He then founded the Upton Gear Company in New York City to manufacture gearboxes. He came into contact with Milton H. Schnader from the Keystone Manufacturing Company . On December 30, 1904, the two founded the Upton Motor Company in Lebanon , Pennsylvania . In 1905 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Upton . Seven vehicles had been built by August 1905. Then the name was changed to Lebanon Motor Works , whereupon the share capital was increased from 5,000 to 200,000 US dollars . A further eight vehicles were manufactured in the same year. In January 1906 the plant was closed for a few days until a shareholder invested further capital. In 1906 33 vehicles were sold.

At the beginning of 1907, a smaller model with the brand name Riviera , which Schnader had designed, came onto the market. Hopes for a contract to manufacture 700 taxis for New York City were not fulfilled. Production ended in 1907.

There was no association with the Upton Automobile Company , which used the same brand name in 1914.

vehicles

Brand name Upton

In 1905 there was the 30 HP . It had a four-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . It was specified with 30 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm . The structure was an open touring car with five seats. The original price was 2500 dollars. One source calls chain drive.

The 40 HP followed in 1906 . Its four-cylinder engine had a 123.825 mm bore , 127 mm stroke and 6117 cc displacement . It made 40 hp. The wheelbase was 277 cm. This model was also bodied as a five-seater touring car. One source calls cardan drive . In the same year, a vehicle with two four-cylinder engines was created as a one-off for a buyer from Rhode Island .

In 1907 nothing changed.

Riviera

The Model B had a two-cylinder engine with water cooling . Each 127 mm bore and stroke resulted in a displacement of 3217 cm³. The engine output of 20 hp was transmitted to the rear axle via a two-speed planetary gearbox and a cardan shaft . The wheelbase measured 269 cm. The only body shape was a touring car with five seats.

Model overview

year brand model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1905 Upton 30 HP 4th 30th 254 5-seater touring car
1906-1907 Upton 40 HP 4th 40 277 5-seater touring car
1907 Riviera Model B 2 20th 269 5-seater touring car

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. 1296 and p. 1491 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1644 (English).

Web links

Commons : Lebanon Motor Works  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. 1491 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1644 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 1296 (English).