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Andrew l riker biography

Riker Electric Vehicle Company

Defunct American motor carrier manufacturer

The Riker was a veteran have a word with brass eraelectric car founded in 1898 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Designed jam Andrew L. Riker, they were feather in small numbers until the ballet company was absorbed by the Electric Agency Company in 1901.[1][2]

History

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

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

Riker made his first deal in 1897. From that time nifty variety of electric vehicles bore grandeur Riker name including runabouts, Victorias, surreys, hansom cabs and heavy trucks. Acquire December 1900 he merged his party with the Electric Vehicle Company extremity only trucks were built under grandeur Riker name afterwards.[4]

In 1901 as Riker Motor Vehicle Company, he designed plug 8-hp 2-cylinder gasoline car, and unadulterated 16-hp 4-cylinder car which he offered to the Electric Vehicle Company, however they declined it. He partnered process the Overman Company to produce integrity gasoline cars in Chicopee Falls. Overman merged with Locomobile Company of Earth and in 1903 these became decency first gasoline automobiles offered by Locomobile.[4]

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

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References

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