Stearns Automobile Company

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Stearns Steam Carriage Company
Stearns Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1903
Seat Syracuse , New York , USA
management Edward C. Stearns
Branch Automobiles

Stearns Automobile Company , previously Stearns Steam Carriage Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

prehistory

Edward C. Stearns was the head of EC Stearns & Company in Syracuse , New York . It was a kind of hardware store . The production of bicycles started. Electric cars were built from 1899 to 1900 . They were called Stearns and they were sold in small numbers. This company still existed after 1903 as a hardware store.

Company history

The Stearns Steam Carriage Company was founded in the same town in the fall of 1900. In addition to Edward Stearns, George M. Barnes, HE Maslin, William Nottingham, Henry Trebert and Charles M. Warner were involved. In the same year, the production of steam cars , designed by Barnes, began. The brand name was still Stearns . These cars were more popular on the market. More than 100 units had been produced by November 1901.

Edward Stearns had teamed up with the charlatan Edward Joel Pennington around 1901 . He became vice president of the Anglo-American Rapid Vehicle Company . A subdivision was the Stearns Automobile Company . In 1903 production ended.

There was no connection to the FB Stearns Company , which also marketed passenger cars as Stearns .

vehicles

The electric cars initially offered had an electric motor with a power of 2.5 hp . The batteries weighed around 400 kg and the complete vehicles around 1000 kg. The maximum speed was given as 19 km / h.

The steam cars had a steam engine with two cylinders that developed 8 hp. It drove the rear axle via a chain. Was steered with a steering lever. There were several different body designs to choose from. Nine superstructures have survived for 1902. Model A was a runabout , Model AA a semi- touring car , Model B a dos-à-dos , Model C a delivery van , Model D a Buggy Top Runabout, Model E a Victoria Top Runabout, Model F a Surrey , Model G a touring car and Model H, a station wagon , an early version of the station wagon with six seats on three benches one behind the other and rear side panels that can be rolled up. In 1903 the Runabout Model A was discontinued .

Model overview

year model construction
1902 Model A Runabout
1902 Model AA Semi-touring car
1902 Model B Dos-à-dos
1902 Model C delivery trucks
1902 Model D Buggy Top Runabout
1902 Model E. Victoria Top Runabout
1902 Model F Surrey
1902 Model G Touring car
1902 Model H Station wagon
1903 Model AA Semi-touring car
1903 Model B Dos-à-dos
1903 Model C delivery trucks
1903 Model D Buggy Top Runabout
1903 Model E. Victoria Top Runabout
1903 Model F Surrey
1903 Model G Touring car
1903 Model H Station wagon

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. 1394 (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. 1508 (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. 1394 (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. 1508 (English).