1906 AUTOCAR LIMOUSINE LANDAULET TOURING BODY ARDMORE PA AUTO CAR AD FC7945

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SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS/DESCRIPTIVE WORDS:st companies producinginlinedesigns. A three-speed transmission was fitted. The steel and wood-framed car weighed 1675lb (760kg). The early cars had tiller steering.

In 1905, the company was selling the Type XII car for $2,250 (equivalent to $76,300 in 2023) and another it called the Type X for $1,000 (equivalent to $33,900 in 2023). It discontinued the Type XI and sold the last of them in 1905. The cars then had a wheel steering with left-hand drive.

The Type X was a runabout. During the 1905–1906 model year the company produced 1000 Type X cars. The manufacture of 500 Type XV runabouts was authorized for 1907 in place of 500 touring cars (Type XIV) in addition to the 1000 runabouts already planned. At special meeting on June 19, 1906, held at 711 Arcade Building,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, the board authorized the hiring of ageneral managerby the name of Harry A. Gillis at a salary of $10,000 per year. Production of 300 Type XVI cars and 500 Type XVII were authorized during a board meeting on November 21, 1906.

Commercial vehicles were made the focus from 1907 and soon outnumbered cars.

As of 1911, Autocar was making only trucks. The first model, the Type XVII, had a 97-inch wheelbase, a one and a half-ton capacity, and a two-cylinder gasoline engine under the seat. Later engines had 4 and 6 cylinders, and wheelbases became longer. Inline engines became the company's focus.

DuringWorld War I, the CanadianArmoured Autocarused an Autocar chassis.

In 1929, Autocar sold 3300 units, though the number fell to 1000 in 1932 and continued to decline during theGreat Depression. Larger trucks with "Blue Streak" gasoline engines andDiesel engines, mainly fromCummins, came later.

DuringWorld War II, Autocar supplied 50,000 units to the military, including specialty vehicles such ashalf-tracks; during its entire prewar history, the company had only built 70,000 units. Autocar ranked 85th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.Civilian production resumed in 1944 and sales increased greatly after the war. Autocar soon had 100 dealers.

From Jan. 27 to Feb. 4,this year’s Philadelphia Auto Showwill showcase the ingenuity and engineering brilliance of auto manufacturers from around the world. Though the Delaware Valley’s influence on the car industry may be minimal today, one area company had an enormous impact on the development of U.S. car manufacturing throughout the first half of the 20th century.

The Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Co. set up shop in 1897, producing what were popularly known at the time as “horseless carriages.” Under the leadership of brothers Lewis and John Clark, the company moved across the Keystone State in 1899, beginning production under the name Autocar at the turn of the century at a factory on Lancaster Pike in Ardmore.

During the first decades of the 20th century, automobiles lacked a mass market and primarily functioned as luxury items for the rich. Despite the nascent car industry’s relatively thin profit margins, Autocar had a strong start in Lower Merion building its Type J automobiles, which became quite popular among SouthEastern Pennsylvania’s elite. George S. Gerhard — a cofounder of Bryn Mawr Hospital and regional luminary — purchased one of the first Model J cars to leave the shop.

While car ownership may have been the purview of the wealthy, middle- and working-class communities still enjoyed the mechanical wonder of automobiles as spectators of competitive races, many of which were sponsored by car manufacturers. Autocar put forth a number of victorious drivers in the region’s car-racing scene, including Joe Brown, who won a 1907 race in Philly’s Point Breeze Park. Driving Autocar’s Type XIV with mechanic John Archfield riding shotgun, Brown edged out the second-place driver by 55 miles.

Over the next decade, Autocar established a reputation for reliability under Lewis Clark, who served as both president and head engineer. Autocar’s unique spark plug — which featured insulation made out of porcelain — became one of the industry’s first standardized components, and the company introduced the first-ever shaft-driven truck in 1901. The Smithsonian maintains one of these groundbreaking models in its collection.

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