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Northern 5hp runabout 1902 for sale

1902-1903 Northern 5hp runabout.Unique chance to acquire a fully restored very motorable early veteran motorcar and forerunner of the Studebaker. This 1902/1903 Northern 5 hp single cylinder 1800 cc runabout, chassis and enginenumber 1476 is the oldest surviving Northern out of only 11 five hp Northerns known to exist. With its two speed ..

Northern

US, 1902 – 1909

(1) Northern Mfg Co, Detroit, Mich., 1902 – 1905

(2) Northern Motor Car Co, Detroit, Mich., 1906 – 1909

The Northern car company was founded by two ex-Oldsmobile engineers, J.D. Maxwell and C.B. King. Their first and most popular Northern car was the Silent Northern, a single-cylinder two-seater runabout not unlike the Oldsmobile, but with a straight dash. These Northern cars were made under licence in Sweden as the Norden. Bonnetted, flat-twins were sold from 1904 and in 1906 King designed a 4-cylinder 18hp Northern car with air-operated brakes and clutch. In 1908 he left the Northern car company – later to make the King car – and in 1909 Northern cars merged with E.M.F.

Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; GMN

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Yale

US, 1903 – 1907

(1) Kirk Mfg Co, Toledo, Ohio, 1903

(2) Consolidated Mfg Co, Toledo, Ohio, 1903 – 1907

One model of the Yale car, with a single-cylinder engine, remained virtually unchanged through the life of the Yale car make. There were also 2-cylinder and 4-cylinder Yale cars, the latter with a 24/28hp engine. The advertising slogan of the Yale car was ‘The Beau Brummell of the Road’.