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American (1917 Automobile)
The American was an American automobile, built in Plainfield, New Jersey, manufactured from 1917 to 1924. The company also used names American Balanced Six or American Six, "Balanced" referred to its chassis, not the engine. It was an assembled car, one of many built in its time, and it used components from several manufacturers like Borg & Beck for clutch, Warner transmission, Stromberg carburetor and Rutenber engines. The company was never large; its peak production was 1400 vehicles built in 1920. In that same year a powerful 58 hp Herschell-Spillman six-cylinder engine replaced old 45 hp Rutenber six. American was commonly advertised as a 'Smile Car' because the company believed their cars offered trouble-free miles for their owners. In 1923 the company became associated with the Bessemer Motor Truck Corporation; that October, the company became Amalgamated Motors, incorporating Northway and Winther as well. Before spring of 1924 American car was out o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automobile
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods. The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the car, when German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars became widely available during the 20th century. One of the first cars affordable by the masses was the 1908 Model T, an American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. Cars were rapidly adopted in the US, where they replaced animal-drawn carriages and carts. In Europe and other parts of the world, demand for automobiles did not increase until after World War II. The car is considered an essential part of the developed economy. Cars have controls for driving, parking, passenger comfort, and a variety of lights. Over the decades, additional features and controls have been added to vehicles, making them progressively more com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plainfield, New Jersey
Plainfield is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, known by its nickname as "The Queen City."About City of Plainfield. Accessed December 29, 2021. "Plainfield Is Nicknamed 'The Queen City.'" The city is both a regional hub for and a of the , located within the core of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assembled Car
Assemble or Assembled may refer to: * ''Assemble'' (album), 2005 album by Grown at Home *Assemble (collective), collective of people based in London *'' Marvel Studios: Assembled'', American television series of documentary specials See also * * *Assembly (other) Assembly may refer to: Organisations and meetings * Deliberative assembly, a gathering of members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions * General assembly, an official meeting of the members of an organization or of their representa ... * Assembler (other) * Avengers Assemble (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borg & Beck
'Borg & Beck'' is a British car parts company owned by First Line Ltd. It was started as a tool company in Moline, Illinois, in the United States, bCharles Borgand Marshall Beck. In 1909 theinventedthe first practical sliding clutch. It merged with other companies in 1928 to become BorgWarner. In 1931, the Borg & Beck Company Limited was set up by Automotive Products Automotive Products, commonly abbreviated to AP, was an automotive industry components company set up in 1920 by Edward Boughton, Willie Emmott and Denis Brock, to import and sell American-made components to service the fleet of ex-military truc ... in the UK to manufacture clutches under American patents from Borg & Beck in the USA. This allowed the company to sell British made Borg & Beck clutches in Great Britain, British Overseas Territories and the British Empire (except Canada). The company was particularly successful in the UK, where, during the 1970s, over 85% of British-made vehicles had a Borg & Beck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner (automobile)
Warner can refer to: People * Warner (writer) * Warner (given name) * Warner (surname) Fictional characters * Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner, stars of the animated television series ''Animaniacs'' * Aaron Warner, a character in '' Shatter Me series'' Education * Warner Pacific University, Portland, Oregon * Warner University, Lake Wales, Florida Places * Warner (crater), a lunar impact crater in the southern part of the Mare Smythii * Warner Theatre (other), several theatres ;Australia * Warner, Queensland ;In Canada * County of Warner No. 5, a municipal district in Alberta * Warner, Alberta, a village * Warner elevator row, Warner, Alberta ;In the United States * Warner, New Hampshire, a New England town ** Warner (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village in the town * Warner, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Warner, Oklahoma * Warner, South Dakota Organisations * Warner Aerocraft, an American aircraft manufacturer based in Seminole, Florida * Warn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stromberg (company)
Stromberg, Strömberg, Strømberg, Stroemberg, or ''variant'' may refer to: Places Germany * Stromberg, Oelde, a town in Oelde * Stromberg (landscape), a region in Baden-Württemberg ** Stromberg-Heuchelberg Nature Park * Stromberg (Siebengebirge), a mountain peak now better known as Petersberg * Stromberg (Verbandsgemeinde), a collective municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rheinland-Pfalz ** Stromberg (Hunsrück), a town and the seat of the collective municipality People * Stromberg (surname), people with the surname of any spelling variant Corporate * Stromberg, a carburetor brand name used by Zenith Carburetters and by Bendix Corporation * Strömberg (company), a Finnish manufacturer of electronic products * Stromberg Guitars, an American company producing guitars, mainly for jazz musicians, between 1906 and 1955 * Stromberg-Carlson, an American manufacturer of telephone equipment, radios and television * Stromberg-Voisinet, manufacturer of musical instruments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutenber Motor Company
The Rutenber Motor Company was established as the Rutenber Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States, to manufacture a four-cylinder engine to the design of Edwin Rutenber. History Rutenber studied the trade of mechanics and, about 1892, built a single-cylinder engine. By 1898, he produced the first four-cylinder engine to be manufactured in the United States. A six-horsepower, single-cylinder engine was used by Frank Eckhart in his 1900 prototype car that was the seed for the Auburn which used Rutenber engines until about 1923. In 1902, Rutenber relocated his company, renamed the Western Motor Company, to Logansport, Indiana. There, the company designed and manufactured 4- and 6-cylinder engines for the emerging automobile and truck industry. Rutenber himself briefly entered the auto business, creating the Rutenber auto and producing as few as 10 automobiles. One of those was known to have been designed for C. W. Swift of the famous Chicago meat packing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herschell-Spillman
The Allan Herschell Company specialized in the creation of amusement rides, particularly carousels and roller coasters. The company manufactured portable machines that could be used by traveling carnival operators. It was started in 1915 in the town of North Tonawanda, just outside Buffalo, New York, USA. History Previous companies Herschell, with James Armitage, created the Armitage Herschell Company in 1873. In 1883, his son William traveled to London to meet former Limonaire Frères employee Eugene de Kleist. Backed by Armitage Herschell, in 1888, de Kleist set up band-organ production in North Tonawanda, founding the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory. The company produced a range of barrel-organ based products, suited for all ranges of fairground attraction. Armitage Herschell remained in operation until the early 1900s. The company carved many portable carousels, made simple in style. Surviving steam riding galleries are located in Mississippi and Maine. In 1901, Hersche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bessemer Motor Truck Corporation
Bessemer may refer to: Places Canada * Bessemer, Ontario United States * Bessemer, Alabama ** Bessemer Airport ** Bessemer Civic Center * Bessemer, Colorado *Bessemer, Michigan * Bessemer City, North Carolina * Bessemer, Ohio * Bessemer, Pennsylvania (other), multiple locations * Bessemer Mountain, a summit in Washington state * Bessemer Township, Michigan *A fictitious town in Upstate New York in David Stout's novel ''The Night of the Ice Storm'' Other uses * The Bessemer process The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation ..., the first inexpensive industrial production method for steel * Bessemer (surname) * SS ''Bessemer'', a Victorian experimental paddle steamer * ''Bessemer'', a GWR 3031 Class locomotive See also * {{disambiguation, geo, surname German-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalgamated (1917 Automobile) , ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885-1968 (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1974), pp. 40.
1910s cars
The Amalgamated was made by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp of Chicago, Illinois, from 1917 to 1919. The Amalgamated Six used a special engine which featured positively opened poppet valves. Instead of disc cams that would only lift, grooved cylindrical cams of the type similar to those in machine tools and other machinery were utilized. Aside from that, the Amalgamated was an assembled car, and only a few were made. References ^ Keith Marvin, "Amalgamated", in Georgano, G.N. George Nicolas "Nick" Georgano (29 February 1932 – 22 October 2017Nick Georgano Alvis Archive Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northway (engine)
Northway may refer to: Places ;Canada * Camp Northway, the oldest summer camp for girls in Canada ;United Kingdom * Northway, Devon, England * Northway, Gloucestershire, England * Northway, Oxford, England * Northway, Somerset, England * Northway, Swansea, Wales ;United States * Northway, Alaska, a village * Northway Junction, Alaska, a village * Northway Village, Alaska, a village * Northway Mall, a shopping mall in Anchorage, Alaska * Northway Shopping Center, a shopping mall in Colonie, New York * The Shoppes at Northway, a shopping mall in Ross Township, Pennsylvania * Adirondack Northway, the segment of Interstate 87 between Albany, New York, and the Canada–US border People Notable people with the Northway surname include: * Doug Northway (born 1955), American swimmer * Edward Northway (1901–1966), English cricketer * Mary Louise Northway (1909–1987), Canadian psychologist * Reginald Northway (1906–1936), Sri Lanka-born cricketer in England * Stephen A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
