Brush Motor Car Company
The Brush Motor Car Company or Brush Runabout Company was founded by Alanson Partridge Brush ( February 10, 1878 - March 6, 1952) in 1907 in Detroit (Michigan ) was founded. He designed a light car with wooden chassis ( actually there were longitudinal members made of wood and steel cross members ), friction drive and expansion springs on all four wheels. There were a variety Roadster with one-to four -cylinder engines on the market before the Ford Model T to low-price sector is almost completely took over, but the Brush roadster but has some unusual details that can be taken as evidence of Inventive approximate wealth of its builder. The drive was a big single cylinder engine with water cooling. The car had standard gas lighting; two headlight and a taillight. Frame and axles were made of oak, hickory or maple wood and were either left untreated or painted in interior color. The horn was mounted on the hood and was connected to the rubber ball of the driver's by means of a long tube. Rear of the vehicle, there was a small trunk in a drawer, which was pushed under the back of the seats.
Brush, who was also the first Oakland, predecessor of the Pontiac designed and helped with the construction of the single-cylinder Cadillac engine, provided his engines with a special peculiarity: They ran counterclockwise, rather than clockwise like any other. Brush saw it a meaning, since such an engine can be boosted by a right with greater certainty (without kick-back of the crank ). The repulse of the occasion crank was usually a big problem since they often broken thumb or even forearms caused, especially if accidentally the ignition was not found previously on " late".
1912 crossed Francis Birtles in a Brush as the first driver the continent of Australia from West to East.
The Brush Runabout Company was with Maxwell - Briscoe, Stoddard - Dayton, and other companies of Benjamin Briscoe in 1910 for United States Power Company merged, but were already recovered in 1913 was forced to declare bankruptcy. Runabouts were soon out of fashion, especially because of the lack of weather protection to its passengers.
Total incurred 13,250 Brush Runabout from 1907 to 1911. A restored car from 1909 is in the '' Pioneer '' in Brownsville Heritage Museum (Oregon ) issued.
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Source
- Kimes, Beverly Ray & Clark jr. Henry Austin: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942, Krause Publications, Iola WI (1985 ), ISBN 0-87341-045-9