Pennington (US vehicle brand)

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Pennington and his motorcycle from 1895
Side view of the motorcycle from 1895
Fantasy illustration of a flying Pennington from 1895

Pennington was an American vehicle brand. The mark was used for passenger cars with breaks between 1894 and 1903.

description

It was named after Edward Joel Pennington . He is referred to as a charlatan in literature. He was also involved in the UK brand Pennington . The production in the USA was distributed among different manufacturers. The brand name was Pennington . The success remained low. A total of around twelve vehicles of this brand were built in the USA.

Chronological sequence

1893 to 1894

In March 1893 Pennington was in Chicago , Illinois , when it came to his first patent in the automotive sector. He assigned this patent to his Motor Cycle Company in Cleveland , Ohio . There is no record of a production.

1894 to 1895

In the summer of 1894 he was in Cortland , New York State . He was able to move CB Hitchcock from the local Hitchcock Manufacturing Company to production. Automobiles and motorcycles should be built here. The only prototype turned out to be a failure. He couldn't even walk a block without the engine overheating. The company went bankrupt .

Back in Cleveland, he announced a motorcycle. It was supposed to have oversized pneumatic tires that supposedly would never lose air. One photo shows Pennington with such a motorcycle.

1895 to 1896

The brand name was suspended from 1895. Because Pennington ran the Racine Motor Vehicle Company together with Thomas Kane in Racine , Wisconsin . Their automobiles were marketed as Kane-Pennington .

1896 to 1899

Pennington was already on the way to England in November 1895 . There he was similarly active and unsuccessful.

1899 to 1900 or 1902

Pennington returned to America in October 1899. Depending on the source, he founded the Anglo-American Rapid Vehicle Company in New York City in 1899 or 1900 . Production was to take place in a Syracuse, state-owned facility that was run by EC Stearns and previously used to manufacture bicycles. Vehicles were manufactured here until 1900 or 1902. One illustration shows a four-wheeled vehicle with an open two-seater body as a runabout .

1900 to 1902

Pennington was also involved in the Pennsylvania Steam Vehicle Company in Carlisle , Pennsylvania , from 1900 to 1902 , which manufactured vehicles for the Tractobile brand.

1903 to 1904

In 1903 Pennington was back in Cleveland. Here he founded the Cleveland Motor Company . Cheap delivery vans and extremely expensive luxury cars were planned. Engines with 160 hp and new prices of 20,000 to 30,000 US dollars have been passed on . By comparison, for the Packard Model K with a four-cylinder engine and 24 hp demanded Packard dollars 7000th He made a car for the general manager of the May Company , a department store in Cleveland.

At the 1904 Cleveland Automobile Show , Pennington presented an old Tractobile, motorized stroller, and motor boat .

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. 1168 (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. 1205-1206 (English).

Web links

Commons : Pennington  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l 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. 1168 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e 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. 1205-1206 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 1107 (English).