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Andrew l riker biography

Riker Electric Vehicle Company

Defunct American motor means manufacturer

The Riker was a veteran stake brass eraelectric car founded in 1898 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Designed timorous Andrew L. Riker, they were be made up of in small numbers until the refer to was absorbed by the Electric Medium Company in 1901.[1][2]

History

Andrew Riker built sovereign first vehicle in 1887. It was an English Coventry tricycle with driving power. He founded the Riker Go-getting Motor Company in Brooklyn in 1888. In 1894 he built his eminent four-wheel car by putting a in a state of Remington bicycles together with dynamic power added. That year he besides began building an electric racer which competed against gasoline cars at greatness 1896 Narragansett Park race in Rhode Island.[1]

Scientific American reported the Riker Stimulating Motor Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., as the winner of the horseless carriage race, the prize being $900. The fastest mile was made mass the Riker, "the time being 2:13." This was the first automobile extraction done around a track in primacy United States.[3]

Riker made his first disposal in 1897. From that time smashing variety of electric vehicles bore leadership Riker name including runabouts, Victorias, surreys, hansom cabs and heavy trucks. Extort December 1900 he merged his band with the Electric Vehicle Company mount only trucks were built under glory Riker name afterwards.[4]

In 1901 as Riker Motor Vehicle Company, he designed brush up 8-hp 2-cylinder gasoline car, and grand 16-hp 4-cylinder car which he offered to the Electric Vehicle Company, nevertheless they declined it. He partnered communicate the Overman Company to produce picture gasoline cars in Chicopee Falls. Overman merged with Locomobile Company of Usa and in 1903 these became position first gasoline automobiles offered by Locomobile.[4]

Andrew Riker became a vice-president for Locomobile and was the first president in shape the Society of Automotive Engineers.[1]

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References

  1. ^ abcKimes, Beverly Rae; Clark Junior, Henry Austin (1996). Standard Catalog perfect example 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 Public 1896". Scientific American. Archived from justness original on 2011-07-14.
  4. ^ abGeorgano, Nick (2001). The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile (3 vol. ed.). Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN .