Searchmont Motor Company
The Search Mont Motor Company was an American automobile manufacturer in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). It evolved out of Keystone Motor Company in the same place that ( the owner of the Stetson Hat Company ), Spencer Trask and other businessmen bought was in 1900 by Theodore C. Search. The CEO Edward B. Gallaher remained as plant manager in the company and the model Keystone Wagonette, a two-seat runabout with single-cylinder rear engine was built further than Mont Search Wagonette to 1902.
1902 Trask contacts tied to the French racing driver Henri Fournier, who won the Paris- Bordeaux and Paris-Berlin in a Mors in 1901 and spent the winter in the eastern United States. Its notoriety wanted to use Trask and named the company in Fournier Search for Mont although Fournier again returned to France and was never involved in the company.
Using as many parts of the U.S. with $ 750, - attractive Wagonette 1902 was a two-cylinder model with front mounted engine, for the Search Mont U.S. $ 2,000, - to 2250, - demanded. For those types III and V with 12 hp ( according to former Calculation Formula) is a Type VI with 8 hp and Type VII with 10 hp were derived for 1903. They cost due to the high production costs of about U.S. $ 1100, - per vehicle sale U.S. $ 2000, - respectively 2500, -. At this price the Search Mont was not competitive; a Ford Model A with 8- hp two-cylinder engine cost at its launch in 1903 U.S. $ 850, - a two- seater and 950, - with detachable tonneau. The most expensive Oldsmobile Light Tonneau with 10 - hp single-cylinder engine, was for U.S. $ 1,050 - to have the largest Elmore, Model 8 Touring with a two-cylinder engine of 10 hp, U.S. $ 1400, - and Premier from Indianapolis (Indiana) demanded for its 16 - hp four-cylinder only U.S. $ 1250, -.
The development of the Search Mont was involved alongside Gallaher especially Lee Sherman Chadwick. How many of Fournier's ideas were incorporated is unclear; externally, it had a certain similarity with the Mors. It is likely that the pressure circulation lubrication of Search Mont went back to Fournier. It was the first in an American automobile.
Chadwick also designed a four-cylinder model with 32 hp ( according to former calculation method). Although material has already been ordered to produce it, he could not go into production because Trask had speculated on the stock exchange and the other partners were no longer interested in continuing the company as a result. Of the two-cylinder models were still about 100 pieces left. This Stock took over the department store pioneer John Wanamaker for only U.S. $ 750, - per vehicle and sold it in his Wanamaker 's Department Store in Philadelphia and New York City easily for U.S. $ 1200 -. One of these cars bought Charles Yale Knight and later supplied him with the first valve engine of their own design.
Chadwick bought all the components of the four-cylinder engine to which he could get, and also began in Philadelphia with its production as Chadwick Type 9 The Search Mont Motor Company ended its.