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Gearless Motor Corporation
Automotive manufacturer Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ;USA From 1919 to 1923.
Gearless Motor Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .The brand name was Gearless .
History
The company was founded in November 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They began in 1919 with the production of automobiles. By November 1920, the first five vehicles were created. Then MacDuncan founded the MacDonald Steam Automotive Corporation in Garfield. Production at gearless ran to a small extent to 1923.
The cars on offer were exclusively steam cars. There are five-seater touring cars and three-seater roadsters. Wooden wheels and wire spoke wheels were available. The chassis had 320 cm wheelbase.
There are many unusual features about this car, and its performance is good at all speeds up to its maximum of 70 miles per hour.
Two separate steam engines with two cylinders made together 65 hp driving each one of the rear wheels. Without Differential the Gearless, a Gasoline-Burning Car Having a Steam Engine Operating Direct on Each Rear Wheel The steam engines, bolted to the rear axle housing, are operated by twin control.
Standard practice is followed in the chassis and body design of the Gearless steam car, priced at $2550 The essential units of the system are a steam generator under the hood, the water tank in the centre, and the motor bolted to the rear axle housing. The fuel tank is in the rear and the water, fuel, and oil pumping unit on the right side mounted on the chassis frame. The steam generator is of the water-tube type, containing over 114 square feet of direct heating surface, mostly in 5/8-inch tubes of nickel steel alloy, generator in case of damage by accident. The burner is of the vaporizing type, but with a new form of gasifier easily cleaned out when required (about every 5,000 miles) and furnished with steam and air cleaning connections. The burner proper is of pressed metal with cast iron upper surfaces. It is divided into three sections, or burner boxes, each served by a separate injection nozzle fitted with screens and non- blocking tips using two steam engines, each one
operating one rear wheel, a new steam car does away with the necessity for a differential in the rear axle. Built on a wheelbase of 117 inches, the Gearless is of the kerosene-burning type, requiring lighting of the burner by means of a match. The burner takes four minutes to bring the generator to working pressure.
There was no connection to the Gearless Motor Car Company, which used the same brand name a few years earlier.
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General Electric Company
Automotive manufacturer USA From 1894 to 1903.
The General Electric Company, or GE, is one of the world's largest conglomerates. The company was founded nearly 80 years ago in Schenectady, New York, and relocated to Fairfield, Connecticut in 1974. Several automobiles were produced by the business in its early years. They were created with the intention of being used as a tests for electric,gas and steam cars.
History
Between 1894 and 1898 vehicles were produced at a plant in Lynn, Massachusetts. The first vehicle was an electric car, whose electric motor made 3 hp. This was followed by several cars with single - cylinder gasoline engines and 1897 another electric car. The designer of these vehicles was Elihu Thomson. In addition, electric cars are named after patents of Hermann Lemp.
Between 1902 and 1903, the company again produced vehicles at a plant in Schenectady, New York State. They were hybrid electric vehicles. They had a four-cylinder engine and two electric motors, each of which powered one of the rear wheels. Both Lemp and the Grant-Ferris Company were involved in this project. There were also experiments with steam cars.
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Goff Automotive manufacturer Texas; USA From 1956.
Goff was an American automobile brand, which was built only in 1956. Manufacturer was Charles Goff from Texarkana in Texas.
History
Built by Charles R. Goff of Texarkana. Texas. The prototype was unlike most sports cars of its kind in that it was designed as a two-door roadster with five seat 5-passenger car
The Goff used a 1939 Ford chassis and a locally built fiberglass body with a removable fiberglass or plastic roof. utilization of used Ford chassis and running gear of pre-war vintage The Goff company stated that finished cars would consist entirely of rebuilt Ford running gear including flathead V8 engines that had a displacement of 3622 cc and made 90 bhp (66 kW) at 3800 rpm. Other engines could be ordered.
The price for the complete vehicle was US $ 1500, Goff also offered its bodies in kit form for $600 The kit included the basic body shell. two doors. windshield supports front opening hood. and all trim
Still after 1956 no more were made.
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Flanders Manufacturing Company
Automotive manufacturer Pontiac, Michigan; USA From 1911 to 1913
Flanders Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles. The brand name was Flanders Electric
History
Walter E. Flanders and Clement Studebaker Junior founded the company in January 1911 with backing from E.M.F. The seat was initially in Chelsea and later in Pontiac, both in Michigan. First, they made motorcycles .1912 began the production of passenger cars. The idea came from C. Leroy Pelletier.
The car was an electric car had a chassis of 100 inches (2540 mm) wheelbase with spring suspension. It was initially available in two variants at a retail price of $ 1,775 each, the Colonial Coupe and the Victoria. They resembled other electric vehicles of that time, such as the Columbia.
Less than 100 vehicles were created. Economic problems led to bankruptcy in 1913. Pelletier bought the remains of the company and then founded the Tiffany Electric Company.
Other US manufacturers of Flanders passenger cars were Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Company (1909-1912), Flanders Motor Company (1913) and Flanders Electric Company (1914-1915).
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Four Wheel Drive Wagon Company
Automotive manufacturer Milwaukee, Wisconsin; USA From 1904 to 1907
Four Wheel Drive Wagon Company was an early American manufacturer of Commercial vehicles and automobiles from the 1900s. The brand name was Four Wheel Drive.
History
Four Wheel Drive Wagon Company was founded in 1903 by Theodore Hanson, Charles B. Perry, and Lyman G. Wheeler. They bought the patents of the Cotta Automobile Company in November 1903. 1904 began the production of automobiles. At the beginning of 1906, an extension of the work was announced.
The vehicles with a focus on commercials included passenger cars, vans and trucks. The all four wheels motor truck was driven by bevel gears from a 50 H. P. motor unit. Not only are all four wheels driven, but steering and braking are also done through them. With wooden tread tires, Able to travel under all conditions of road and weather, no matter how trying. They trailer with a five-ton load up hills or through snow. The open touring cars had a four-cylinder engine from the Rutenber Motor Company with 40 hp. The chassis had 335 cm wheelbase.
At the end of 1906 production came to a standstill. The beginning of 1907 was followed by bankruptcy.