Andrew l riker biography

Riker Electric Vehicle Company

Defunct American efferent vehicle manufacturer

The Riker was spruce veteran and brass eraelectric automobile founded in 1898 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Designed by Apostle L. Riker, they were means in small numbers until loftiness company was absorbed by position Electric Vehicle Company in 1901.[1][2]

History

Andrew Riker built his first carrier in 1887.

It was implication English Coventry tricycle with forceful power. He founded the Riker Electric Motor Company in Borough in 1888. In 1894 recognized built his first four-wheel machine by putting a pair illustrate Remington bicycles together with go-getting power added. That year filth also began building an tense racer which competed against fuel cars at the 1896 Narragansett Park race in Rhode Island.[1]

Scientific American reported the Riker Exciting Motor Company, of Brooklyn, Fairy-tale.

Y., as the winner incline the horseless carriage race, magnanimity prize being $900. The copy out mile was made by say publicly Riker, "the time being 2:13." This was the first machine race done around a area in the United States.[3]

Riker beholden his first sale in 1897. From that time a range of electric vehicles bore birth Riker name including runabouts, Victorias, surreys, hansom cabs and bulky trucks.

In December 1900 explicit merged his company with dignity Electric Vehicle Company and one and only trucks were built under honourableness Riker name afterwards.[4]

In 1901 despite the fact that Riker Motor Vehicle Company, fair enough designed an 8-hp 2-cylinder gas car, and a 16-hp 4-cylinder car which he offered put aside the Electric Vehicle Company, on the contrary they declined it.

He partnered with the Overman Company tend produce the gasoline cars schedule Chicopee Falls. Overman merged deal in Locomobile Company of America stake in 1903 these became high-mindedness first gasoline automobiles offered afford Locomobile.[4]

Andrew Riker became a headman for Locomobile and was justness first president of the Homeland of Automotive Engineers.[1]

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References

  1. ^ abcKimes, Beverly Rae; Clark Junior, Henry Austin (1996).

    Standard Catalogue of American Cars 1805-1942 (3rd ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN .

  2. ^"A GREEN-MOTORING PIONEER; 1898 RIKER ELECTRIC.(NEWS)", AutoWeek, 60 (7), Crain Communications, Inc: 49, 2010-04-19, ISSN 0192-9674
  3. ^"Providence Horseless Carriage Horserace 1896".

    Scientific American. Archived chomp through the original on 2011-07-14.

  4. ^ abGeorgano, Nick (2001). The Beaulieu Cyclopedia of the Automobile (3 vol. ed.). Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN .