Black Motor Company

The Black was a passenger car that was produced 1908-1910 by the Black Manufacturing Company in Chicago ( Illinois). The company also manufactured the Chicago Motor buggy.

These were to hochrädrige vehicles only U.S. $ 375, - up to U.S. $ 450, - cost. By comparison, the Western Gale Model A cost U.S. $ 500, - and the manufactured in large series models Oldsmobile Curved Dash and Ford Doctor 's Car U.S. $ 650, - or U.S. $ 850, -.

The Black had an air-cooled 2- cylinder gasoline engine with 12-18 hp ( 8.8 to 13.2 kW), chain drive, controlled by a steering wheel and (then unusual ) double brakes. The car reached speeds of 3-40 km / h and consumed 12.75 l / 100 km petrol.

There was also Surries and top motor buggies.

Black Crow

From 1909 to 1910, the Black Manufacturing Company sold a renamed Crow - Elkhart with four-cylinder in-line engine, the ( 18.4 to 29 kW) made ​​25-40 bhp, as Black Crow.

Models

Swell

  • Wise, David Burgess: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles, ISBN 0-7858-1106-0
  • Kimes, Beverly Ray & Clark jr. Henry Austin: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942, Krause Publications, Iola WI (1985 ), ISBN 0-87341-045-9
Crow-Elkhart (automobile company)
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