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The Sterling car succeeded the Elkhart and preceded the Elcar, and the company also made a 4-cylinder assembled car, the Komet, in 1911. The Sterling car was built in five open body styles, ranging in price from $1.500 to $1.850. The Sterling cars used a T-head, 4-cylinder engine of approximately 4-litres’ capacity. The rear springs of the Sterling cars were of the old-fashioned platform design.
This Sterling car was a cyclecar powered by an 8hp V-twin JAP engine. Final drive of this Sterling car was by V-belts.
The Sterling car was a small five-seater touring car weighing 1.250lb. The Sterling car had a 4-cylinder engine and was priced at $650, with electric lighting.
This Sterling car was an assembled car powered by a 4-cylinder, 2.3-litre Le Roi engine with overhead valves. The two-seater roadster Sterling car was listed at $500. One source gives the name of the second make as Royal Amston, but this cannot be confirmed. Later Sterling car models, made by the Consolidated Car Company, used 4-cylinder Le Roi or 6-cylinder Herschell-Spillman engines.
Introduced in October 1923, the Sterling-Knight car was one of the lesser-known Knight-engined Sterling cars. The 6-cylinder car failed in early 1925 after a total production of about 425 Sterling cars.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; GMN, GNG, KM
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