New Era Engineering Company

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New Era Engineering Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1916
Seat Joliet , Illinois , USA
management Forrest J. Alvin
Branch Automobiles

New Era Engineering Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Forrest J. Alvin founded the company in mid-1915 with James P. Buckley, Winthrop Burdick and WJ Burdick. The seat was in Joliet , Illinois . Alvin became president. He recruited WO Dayton from the Crusader Motor Car Company as a designer. In 1916 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was New Era . Production ended in July 1916. Elgin Motors took over the factory. Alvin moved to the Schoeneck Company .

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand New Era were automobiles and Marine Power Company and New Era Motors Corporation .

vehicles

A small car was on offer . It had a four-cylinder engine with 16 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 264 cm . There was a choice of a five-seat touring car and a two-seat roadster .

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. 1041 (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. 1111 (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. 1041 (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. 1111 (English).