Lyons-Atlas Company

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Lyons-Atlas Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1918
Reason for dissolution Merger
Seat Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
Branch Automobiles , engines , tractors

Lyons-Atlas Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles , engines, and tractors .

Company history

The brothers George W., James W. and William P. Lyons founded the company in 1912. The seat was in Indianapolis , Indiana . In addition, they bought the Atlas Engine Works from the same city. The designer Harry A. Knox came from the Atlas Motor Car Company . They started producing passenger cars in 1913 . The brand name was Lyons-Knight . In August 1915, Knox withdrew. Thereupon the production of road vehicles ended.

During the First World War , boat engines were created for Great Britain. In 1916 the Hume Manufacturing Company was taken over and tractors were then manufactured.

On June 23, 1918, it merged with the Hill Pump Company to form the Midwest Engine Company .

Car

All vehicles had a valve engine based on the Charles Yale Knight system .

From 1913 to 1914 there were two models in the range. The K-4 model had a four-cylinder engine with 50 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 330 cm . Touring cars with five and seven seats as well as two different limousines were available. The model K-6 had a six-cylinder engine with the same power. The wheelbase was also identical. The only bodies were touring cars with five and seven seats.

In 1915 there was only the four-cylinder model. The engine and wheelbase remained unchanged. Touring cars and limousines with five or seven seats each and a two-seater roadster have come down to us .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1913-1914 Model K-4 4th 50 330 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars, limousine
1913-1914 Model K-6 6th 50 330 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars
1915 Model K-4 4th 50 330 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars, 2-seater roadsters, 5-seater and 7-seater sedans

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. 912 (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. 936 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 912 (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. 936 (English).
  3. ↑ Sam Moore: Farm and Dairy from March 25, 2018 (English, accessed August 11, 2018)
  4. ^ Albert Gieseler: Albert Gieseler on Atlas Engine Works (accessed on August 11, 2018)