Ludlow Auto Engineering Company

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Ludlow Auto Engineering Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1916
Seat Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Ludlow Auto Engineering Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in 1915 . Karl R. Peters was involved. In the same year the production of passenger cars began . The brand name was initially Peters-Walton and from 1916 Peters Tricar . In that year only commercial vehicles were built . Production ended in 1916.

vehicles

The vehicles are referred to in one source as a cycle car. However, they exceeded the capacity limit. They had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 9 hp . A bore of 84.1375 mm and a stroke of 101.6 mm resulted in a displacement of 1130 cm³ .

They were tricycles with a single front wheel. The motor was mounted above the front wheel and drove it. The chassis had a wheelbase of 208 cm . The body of the car was a roadster with two seats in a row.

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. 1173 (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. 1209 (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. 1173 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 1209 (English).