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Abbott.gifAbbott Motor Co9 viewsThe Abbott-Detroit was an American luxury automobile manufactured between 1909 and 1919. It was considered powerful and well-designed, and had a Continental engine. The cars were guaranteed for life by 1913, when electric lighting and starting had been standardized.
The company closed its doors for good in 1919.
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Anderson_Electric_NPCB_2_A.jpgAnderson Electric12 views The hubcap is marked: "DETROIT, ANDERSON CARRIAGE CO. DETROIT, MICH." In researching "The Standard Catalog of American Cars" one will find several historical marques called "DETROIT", but only one produced by The Anderson Carriage Co., this was the successful: DETROIT (ELECTRIC)!! As the brass center insert for this hubcap reads "ANDERSON CARRIAGE CO." I am led to believe it could be from a very early, and low production car of 1907 - 1911Frank
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Anderson_Electric_NPCB_2_B.jpgAnderson Electric4 viewsSideFrank
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Argo_Radiator_Badge_1_A.jpgArgo8 viewsDescription: This is a different company then the Argo Electric that was built in Saginaw, Michigan. This one by Argo Motor Co. was built in Jackson, Michigan between the years of 1914 and 1918 It was built by Benjamin Briscoe and started out as Briscoe’s French cycle car venture under the name of Ajax. It returned to the USA. with only Ajax friction drive and the name being changed and was sometimes referred to as the Argo Motor Vique to make it sound a little more French. Briscoe was going to build the car in New York but moved the company to Jackson Michigan when the Standard Electric plant became available and the Argo became a larger conventional assembled car by 1916. Briscoe sold the works to Mansell Hackett who reorganized as the Hackett Motor Car Company in the fall of 1916 but continued assembling Argo’s from parts on hand as late as 1918. (Info from The Standard Catalog of American Cars)
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Baker_.jpgBaker8 viewsWomen favored electric automobiles because they did not require cranking and had no exhaust fumesFrank
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Baker_PA_1_A.jpgBaker 19117 views• Description; Pressed aluminum threaded hubcap for a Baker Electric automobile built in Cleveland, Ohio between the years of 1899 and 1916. Baker sued Rauch & Lang in 1911 but had merged with the company by 1915. This cap is the round style with a notch so is an early cap. The note inside of the cap says it is a 1911 but I am not positive.
• Size; The cap has an outside diameter of 3” and is 1 ¾” high with 2 3/8”- 16 threads.
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Cartercar_1912_Model_R.jpgCartercar12 views1912 Model R Roadster. The Cartercar was an American automobile manufactured in 1905 in Jackson, Michigan, in 1906 in Detroit, and from 1907 to 1915 in Pontiac, Michigan. After leaving the Jackson Automobile Company due to a disagreement with his business partners over the choice of transmissions, Byron J. Carter in 1905 formed the Motorcar Company in Jackson. The firm relocated to Detroit by the end of the year, due to having financing there. Starting in 1907, the company was named Cartercar Company and was relocated to Pontiac, thereupon merging with the makers of the Pontiac High wheeler. The Cartercar was given a warm reception in the press, largely due to the friction drive transmission, which was a sort of forerunner of the CVT of today, as both offered an infinite number of engine speeds. At 4000 miles, the paper fiber rims that were part of the friction-drive could be replaced for no more than $5, which was less than half the price that would be expended on grease packing in a regular geared transmission. [1]
Tragedy struck when Byron Carter was killed in 1908 while trying to start a stalled car; the crank kicked back and hit him in the jaw, causing gangrene which ultimately proved fatal. Carter was a personal friend of Cadillac founder Henry Leland, and his unfortunate death prompted development of the Self-Starter (introduced in 1912), the first successful motor vehicle electric starting system, eliminating the dangerous crank.
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CGV_Charron_CB_1_A.jpgC.G.V. Charron; 1901 - 19066 viewsDescription: The C.G.V. was produced by the three partners Charron, Girardot and Voigt from 1901 – 1906 at which time the firm became a British Limited Liability Company and Girardot left the company to sponsor the G.E.M. Petro Electric. From 1907 on, the cars were known only as Charron’s.
Dimension: 3 27/32” OD X 1 5/8” high with 3 5/16” external threads. 3” across the flats.hubcapper
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Columbia_205_nz_electric.jpgColumbia Electric Vehicle Co19 viewsFrank
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Columbia_Electric_Vehicle_Coy_CB_1_A.jpgColumbia & Electric Vehicle Company27 views• Description; Very rare cast brass threaded hub cap for The Electric Vehicle Company in New York. This company was founded by Isaac Rice for the purpose of manufacturing Hansom cabs. The Electric Vehicle Company was purchased by William Collins in 1899 and the cars were given the name Columbia. I believe this cap would be from the 1899 period as it notes on the face that it was “Made By Columbia & Electric Vehicle Co. For Electric Vehicle Co., New York”. I assume this to mean that it was made by both companies before the complete change over to the name Columbia and was used on an Electric Vehicle. This is a very heavy cap weighing just over four pounds.
• Size; The cap has an outside diameter of 4 3/8” and is 3 ¼” high with 3 ¼”- 18 threads.
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Columbia_Motor_Car_PB_1_A.jpgColumbia Motor Car (Gasoline)191115 views• Description; Pressed brass threaded hub cap for a Columbia automobile built in Hartford, Connecticut between the years of 1897 and 1913 by The Pope Manufacturing Company. This cap is likely from a gasoline powered vehicle rather then an electric because when the company name was changed to The Columbia Motor Car Co. in 1909, there were five gasoline models and only two electrics being produced. The note on the inside of this cap says it is a rear cap for a 1911. I am not positive of the application.
• Size; The cap has an outside diameter of just under 4 1/8” and is 3 7/16” high with 3 15/16” -16 threads.
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Darracq.gifDarracq7 viewsHis first motor cars were electric cabs, but the design was dismissed as "worthless", and he turned to the manufacture of tricycles and quadricycles, then spent $10,000 on the acquisition of Lion Bolle's patents, and turned out a horrid belt-drive machine called the Darracq-Bolle.
A neat voiturette appeared in 1900 this 6 1/2 hp single being quickly followed by two- and four-cylinder models, which in 1904 acquired Darracq's distinctive chassis, pressed, together with its undershield, from a single sheet of steel. British capital reformed the company in 1905, and thereafter a complex range was available, from a 1039cc 8 hp single to an 8143cc 50/60 hp six. Disastrous fours with Henriod rotary valves appeared in 1912, a 2613cc 15 hp (uprated to 2951cc the next year) and a 3969cc 20 hp: these proved so unreliable that profits dwindled to almost nothing.
M. Darracq quickly decided to retire (he had never really liked cars anyway, could not drive and did not like to be driven) and took a share in the Casino at Deauville. Darracq was taken over by Owen Clegg, who introduced a 1913 range based on his excellent Rover Twelve, with monobloc L-head engines of 2121cc and 2971cc: a 4084cc model was added in 1914. This was used by the French Army during the war, and was joined in 1919 by an advanced sv V8 of 4595cc.
A merger with Sunbeam-Talbot came in 1920, and Darracqs became "Talbots" in France (but were still sold as "Darracqs" or "Talbot-Darracqs" in England until 1939).
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Detroit_Electric_1918.jpgDetroit Electric 75 Coupe10 views1918frank
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Electric_Vehicle_Coy_CB_1_B.jpgElectric Veh Co6 viewssideFrank
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Houk_Anderson_Electric_NPCB_1_A.jpgAnderson Electric 1911-191912 views• DESCRIPTION: Nickel plated cast brass threaded hub cap with a brass insert for a Anderson Electric automobile built in Detroit, Michigan between the years of 1907 and 1939. The company started out as the Anderson Carriage Company and was renamed the Anderson Electric Car Company in 1911 and changed again in 1919 to the Detroit Electric Car Company. This cap would be from the period of the Anderson Electric 1911 to 1919.
• SIZE: The cap has an outside diameter of 3 1/5” and is 2 13/16” high with 3”- 12 threads and is a # 4 Houk wire wheel cap as used on several different makes of cars. Frank
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