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Corwin Manufacturing Company

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Overview
ManufacturerCorwin Manufacturing Company
Body and chassis
Body styleSide-entrance tourer
Powertrain
EngineFour-cylinder
TransmissionNone[1]

Corwin Manufacturing Company (formerly Vaughn Machine Company) was a pioneer brass era American automobile company based in Peabody, Massachusetts.[1]

During 1905 and 1906, Corwin produced the Gas-au-lec, a five-place side-entrance tourer with a copper-jacketed four-cylinder four-cycle gasoline (petrol) engine of 40-45 hp (30-34 kW). The company's ads claimed it lacked starting crank, "change speed gears", clutch, cams, valve gear, tappets, and complications,[1] thanks to electromagnetically operated inlet valves.

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Clymer, p.158.

Sources

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  • Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925. New York: Bonanza Books, 1950.
  • David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles.