New England Motor Carriage Company

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New England Motor Carriage Company
legal form Corporation
founding 1898
resolution 20th century
Seat Waltham , Massachusetts , USA
management
  • Alfred N. Goodhue
  • WP Burnell
  • Charles A. Skerry
  • William A. Ingham
  • Francis M. Young
Branch vehicles

The New England Motor Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of bicycles and, for a short time, a steam car . Its brand name was New England , possibly with the addition of Steamer .

Company history

The company was established in February 1898 and the tremendous for this time and industry capital of 1 million US dollars in Boston ( Massachusetts founded) formally and was located in rented premises at 31 State Street .

There are no known connections to the Waltham Automobile Company (steam cars from the Waltham Steam and American Steam brands ) or to the Waltham Watch Company (watches from the Waltham Watch brand ). By contrast, seem to be the founder, Alfred N. Goodhue, WP Burnell, Charles A. Skerry, William A. Ingham and Francis M. Young, with the bicycle manufacturer American Waltham Manufacturing Company to have been connected in Waltham, for the production of Comet bicycles seems to have been carried out in both companies.

The prototype may have been developed together with an electric car, but the latter was not pursued any further. In May 1899 the company moved into facilities in Waltham, Massachusetts and focused on building the Comet bicycle; it is probably a merger with American Waltham , where a steam car was also built at the time. However, New England lost interest in automobile production. So the American Waltham Steamer was discontinued. The private New England steamer was on account of Stanton Manufacturing Company continued to be built until 1901 at the same location in Waltham.

Automobiles

The New England Steamer was a four-wheeled, two-seat runabout , the lightweight construction of which was inspired by bicycle construction. It had wire-spoke wheels and a lever instead of a steering wheel. The power was generated by two small high-pressure steam engines and transmitted to the rear axle via a drive chain. The kettle was fired with gasoline. The vehicle weighed just over 270 kg.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes (ed.), Henry Austin Clark Jr.: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-428-4 . (English)
  • GN Georgano (Ed.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 2nd Edition. Dutton Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 . (English)
  • Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. Editor SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, ISBN 0-7680-1431-X . (English)
  • Richard J. Evans: Steam Cars (Shire Album). Shire Publications, 1985, ISBN 0-85263-774-8 . (English)
  • Anthony Bird, Edward Douglas-Scott Montagu of Beaulieu: Steam Cars, 1770-1970. Littlehampton Book Services, 1971, ISBN 0-304-93707-X . (English)
  • Floyd Clymer, Harry W. Gahagan: Floyd Clymer's Steam Car Scrapbook. Literary Licensing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-258-42699-6 . (English)
  • John Heafield Bacon: American Steam-Car Pioneers: A Scrapbook. Newcomen Society of the United States. 1st edition. 1984, ISBN 99940-65-90-4 . (English) beginnings; Sylvester A. Roper; George A. Long; George E. Whitney
  • H. Walter Staner: The early days of motors and motor-driving - steam cars. Lightning Source, Milton Keynes UK, ISBN 978-1-4455-2487-0 . (undated reprint of instructions for operating steam cars from the publisher of the specialist newspaper Autocar , approx. 1900, English)
  • Anthony Bird: De Dion Bouton - First automobile Giant. (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Car marque book No 6). Ballantine Books, New York 1971, ISBN 0-345-02322-6 . (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kimes (1996), p. 47.
  2. ↑ a b Kimes (1996), p. 1040.