Lewis Motor Vehicle Company

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Lewis Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1900
Seat Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
management George W. Lewis
Branch Automobiles

Lewis Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

George W. Lewis from Chicago in Illinois had built an automobile as early as 1894, with which he took part in the Chicago Times-Herald Contest in 1895 . There he won an award for his friction gear . He then produced gasoline engines that he offered to other automobile manufacturers. They were single-cylinder engines with an output of 2 to 5 hp . One of them powered the Brown Touring Cart .

It was not until 1899 that Lewis founded the new vehicle production company. The seat was in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . The production of automobiles ran from 1899 to 1900. The brand name was Lewis . In total, only a few vehicles were built.

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

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a single cylinder engine with 3 hp. The setup was a runabout . Was steered with a steering lever.

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. ↑ 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).