Safety Shredder Company

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Safety Shredder Company
legal form Company
founding 1898
resolution 20th century
Seat New Castle , Indiana , USA
Branch Agriculture

Safety Shredder Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

WC Bond, GW Hillock, SP Jennings, TB Millikin, George Murphy, George Pittman, Orlando S. Saffell, Dr. Thompson, FL Wayman and others founded the company in 1898. The seat was in New Castle , Indiana . A source dated January 9, 1902 states that the company was initially called the Safety Corn Husker and Shredder Company and recently changed to the Safety Shredder Company . It made agricultural implements.

Benjamin Lawter developed two passenger cars in 1909 . He was looking for his own factory for production. Before that came about, the Safety Shredder Company made the vehicles. The production of automobiles took place only in 1909. The brand name was Lawter . It is also known that a four-stroke engine was created in 1907 and still exists today.

It is not known when the company was dissolved.

vehicles

Both models had a two-cylinder engine . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a planetary gearbox with three gears and two chains.

The Sixteen had an engine with 114.3 mm bore , also 114.3 mm stroke , 2346 cm³ displacement and 16 HP power. The chassis had a 229 cm wheelbase . The structure was a baby tonneau with four seats.

The Twenty had an engine with 127 mm bore, 127 mm stroke, 3217 cm³ displacement and 20 hp. The wheelbase was slightly longer at 239 cm. The open touring car had five seats.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1909 Sixteen 2 16 229 Baby tonneau 4-seater
1909 Twenty 2 20th 239 5-seater 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. 853 (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. 881 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 853 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 881 (English).
  3. ↑ Biography of Orlando C. Saffell (accessed July 28, 2018)
  4. ↑ Indianapolis Journal, January 9, 1902 (accessed July 28, 2018)
  5. ↑ Benjamin Joseph Badgley: The Making of a Historical Consciousness in Henry County, Indiana , August 2017 (PDF; accessed July 28, 2018)
  6. ↑ Mike: Mike's Lawter Page (accessed July 28, 2018)