Blackhawk Clark Manufacturing Company

 Moline, Illinois, USA founding 1897 resolution 1903

Clark Manufacturing Company was an early American manufacturer of automobiles. 

History

WE Clark dealt with the development of automobiles from 1897 onwards. His company was based in Moline, Illinois. The first car was a single-cylinder, air-cooled auto-buggy with a cooling fan mounted on the flywheel later in 1901 serial production was announced with a single-cylinder air-cooled 4 hp runabout car by 1903 he had developed
two-cylinder model as well Both of these used the same chassis with the engine rear mounted above the frame at me with horizontal flywheel fitted.

In 1902 it was announced that the brand name will be Blackhawk. In the standard version of this model named the Blackhawk, was air-cooled and available as single-cylinder engine model for $750 or a two-cylinder had tiller steering and a planetary transmission. A larger Phaeton with a two-cylinder engine was on offer at the same time costing $850. The chassis of both models was the same. The engines were mounted in the rear and powered by a planetary gear on the rear axle. Only around 50 of these Blackhawks were made before production stopped later in 1903. Clark again and in 1906, after a large money investment from Charles Deere of tractor fame, later introduced the Deere-Clark cars.