Lincoln Electric Company

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Lincoln Electric Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution after 1900
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

Lincoln Electric Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1900 in Cleveland , Ohio . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Lincoln , possibly with the addition of Electric . Vehicle production ended in 1900.

The company still existed for a while in the field of electrical components.

More American car brands named Lincoln introduced Lincoln Automobile Company , Lincoln Motor Car Works , Lincoln Motor Car Company and the Ford Corporation as Lincoln ago.

vehicles

Electric cars were on offer . They had an electric motor with 2.5 hp . The batteries came from Willard . The body was an open runabout with two seats. The original price was 800 US dollars .

A special feature was a control unit called the Lincoln Controller . This part was extensively described in a magazine on September 6, 1900, but it remained incomprehensible.

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. 886 (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. 902 (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. 886 (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. 902 (English).