T&F Cycle Car Company

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Climax Electric Works
T&F Cycle Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1915
Seat New Salem , Massachusetts , USA
management Levi W. Flagg
Branch Automobiles , parts

T&F Cycle Car Company , previously Climax Electric Works , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Levi W. Flagg and William E. Taft, who previously ran the United States Mobile & Power Company , founded Climax Electric Works in 1906 . The seat was in New Salem , Massachusetts . They planned to produce a cheap electric car . For price reasons, they decided to use a gasoline engine as the drive for series production that began in 1906 . The brand name was Climax . It is not known exactly when the name was changed to T&F Cycle Car Company . From 1907 self-made engines and vehicle accessories were offered. In 1908 the company moved to a larger factory in the same city. A little later, Taft left. In 1911 the bankruptcy was noted. As a result, vehicle production initially ended. In 1914, kits were offered as T&F . Accessories were made until 1915.

Products

Only one vehicle model was offered as a Climax . A two-cylinder engine with 18 HP power drove the rear axle via a friction gear . The chassis had a 229 cm wheelbase . Open bodies as runabouts and roadsters have been handed down. The original price was 500 US dollars for a complete vehicle and 290 dollars for a kit .

The T&F were kit cars . The company supplied the parts. One illustration is labeled Cyclecar and Roadster, although it remains unclear whether the criteria for Cyclecars were met.

The gasoline engines offered were air-cooled . Friction gears came in at least two designs. Customers were many manufacturers of cycle cars and small cars such as the Westfield Manufacturing Company .

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. 343 and p. 1463 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 316. (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. 343 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 316. (English)
  3. ↑ a b 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. 1463 (English).