Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company

The Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company was founded in the second half of the 19th century by John W. Lambert as part of the corporate conglomerate to the Buckeye Manufacturing Company.

History

When Lambert was the beginning of 20, he formed a partnership with his father under the corporate name of JW Lambert & Company. The company donated grave fork stems and wooden spokes ago. The end of 1891 he moved to Ohio City (Ohio ), after trying unsuccessfully to manufacture " horseless carriages " and distribute. There he ran a business for agricultural needs, a granary and a junkyard. 1893 Lambert came to Anderson (Indiana) and pulled some of its machinery to enable there. This was the nucleus of his factory in Anderson. The factory consisted of 24,000 m² brick buildings and was equipped with the latest machinery of the time. The Lambert Company manufactured agricultural equipment and stationary to be operated gasoline engines for farms and other commercial applications. 1893 received the works of the name Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company and Buckeye Manufacturing Company. At that time there were employed about 250 people.

The factory was in 1900 equipped with machinery for the manufacture of automobiles, the Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company manufactured the engines and the Buckeye Manufacturing Company other parts for the cars. BF Lambert was president of the company, George A. Lambert secretary while John A. Lambert took over the duties of the Chief Financial Officer and Plant Manager. The capital stock of the company was $ 100,000 - which would correspond to today millions of U.S. $.

Before the Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company automobile engines built, they dealt with the construction of stationary engines. A partial description of the Lambert- stationary engine is: " The engines of the Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company are all four-stroke engines lying horizontally. They are available in 15 power levels of 1 hp ( 0.74 kW) to 40 bhp (29 kW). The valves have mushroom shape and are driven by a camshaft with untersetztem worm drive. The exhaust valve is controlled by a lever which extends transversely below the cylinder base, open, which is provided at the end with a roller which is actuated by the camshaft. The outlet is cooled by a water jacket and the cylinder head has a cooling jacket, so no leak in the cooling system can arise and cooling water enters the cylinder. "

The Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company delivered to each motor with a manual. It was a manual for gasoline engines of the company, which stated how it could only detect the operating noise, the operation of the machine.

Primary sources

  • Biography of John W. Lambert, written by his son on January 25, 1935, Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection
  • Dolnar, Hugh: Automobile Trade Journal, article: The Lambert, 1906 Line of Automobiles, Chilton Company, January 10, 1906

Secondary sources

  • Bailey, L. Scott: Historic Discovery: 1891 Lambert, New Claim for America's First Car, Antique Automobile magazine, Issue 24, No. 5, October / November 1960
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  • Scharchburg, Richard P.: Carriages Without Horses: J. Frank Duryea and the Birth of the American Automobile Industry, Society of American Engineers (SAE ), ( 1993), ISBN 1-5609138-0-0
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