The Allen-Kingston Automobile & The Allen-Kingston Motor Car Co.
A few Allen-Kingston automobiles were built by the New York Car & Truck Co. However, that firm failed by March of 1908. So in 1908 Walter Allen moved his Allen King Motor Co. into The New York Car & Truck Co. factory and built Allen-Kingston automobiles there up 1909. Walter Allen designed the Allen-Kingston car and previously had been associated with Daimler in Europe and with the Continental Tire Co. The Allen-Kingston was designed on European lines, but was meant for American manufacture to circumvent the 45% duty on imported automobiles.
1909 Allen-Kingston Gunboat Car The Gunboat was a light weight four passenger aluminum body American Automobile. It was called the "Gunboat" body because it is of the type first introduced by the Daimler Motor Co. The body was very low, as the frame is dropped in front of the rear axle and the seats were low also. The outline of the body was quite smooth to the bulging stern back of the rear seat. This body style was claimed to reduced dust on the rear passengers. The Allen-Kingston was equipped with a four cylinder water cooled engines rated at 35 or 48 horsepower. The four cylinders were casted in pairs, bore was 4 3/4 inches on the 35 HP engine and 5 1/2 inches on the 48 HP engine. The stroke was 5 inches on the 35 HP engine and 6 1/8 inches on the 48 HP engine. A selective transmission with four speeds forward and reverse was used and final drive was by shaft. Wheelbase was 121 inches on the 35 horsepower car and 125 inches on the 48 horsepower cars. 34 inch x 4 inch tires were used.
1908 Allen-Kingston Advertisement The Allen-Kingston was also made in Touring Cars (The Gunboat), Runabout, Limousines and Landaulets according to this 1908 advertisement. Note the fact that the Allen-Kingston Motor Car Co. was an automobile retailer in 1908. They also sold the German Mercedes and the French De Dietrich.
1918 American Automobile
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