Modern Tool Company

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Modern Tool Company
legal form Company
founding 1898
resolution 1922
Seat Erie , Pennsylvania , USA
Branch mechanical engineering

The building in 2013

Modern Tool Company was an American company in the mechanical engineering .

Company history

The company was founded in Erie , Pennsylvania in 1898 . In 1902 it moved to a plant that still exists today. Calvin N. Payne was president. From 1904, he and his son experimented with automobiles . In 1906 Gilbert Loomis, who previously ran the Loomis Auto Car Company , joined. However, he left the company quickly and switched to the Speedwell Motor Car Company . In 1907 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Payne-Modern . In 1908 the production of motor vehicles ended .

In 1922, the Consolidated Machine Tool Company of America took over the company.

vehicles

There were two models on offer. They had a lot in common. These included the cylinder angle of 60 degrees of the V-engines , the cylinder dimensions of 101.6 mm bore and 114.3 mm stroke , the OHV valve control and the air cooling . The gearshift lever for the four-speed gearbox was not located outside the body, as was common at the time, but on the steering wheel . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a cardan shaft .

The smaller model was the Four . The four-cylinder engine had a displacement of 3707 cc and made 24 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm . There was a choice of runabouts and touring cars .

The Six had a six-cylinder engine with 5560 cc and 36 hp. The wheelbase was 300 cm. The range of bodies was identical.

One source says the vehicles were too complicated.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1907-1908 Four 4th 24 254 Runabout, touring car
1907-1908 Six 6th 36 300 Runabout, 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. 1158 (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. 1200 (English).

Web links

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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. 1158 (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. 1200 (English).
  3. ↑ a b United States Department of the Interior (accessed December 1, 2018)