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1907 Premier Model 24

Right out of our Titanic Museum display, representing the cars from that era. We chose this car because of it's quality and beauty, it is the type of car that is a pleasure to look at. This 1907 Premier Model 24 Runabout is a prime example from this rarely seen marque that continues to benefit from an older, high-quality concours-level restorati..

Premier

US, 1903 – 1925

(1) Premier Motor Mfg Co, Indianapolis, Ind.

(2) Premier Motor Corp, Indianapolis, Ind.

The Premier car started life as a conventional machine made on modern lines, with a pressed-steel frame, mechanically-operated inlet valves, and shaft drive. A four-cylinder air-cooled Premier car was made in 1905. The designer of the Premier car was G.A. Weidely, who made his name with proprietary engines. A line of conventional water-cooled big fours and six-cylinder Premier cars followed, starting with a 24/28hp Premier car in 1907. From 1913, sixes alone were built, the ‘Premier 48’ at $3.250 having a capacity of over 8 litres. The special racing Premier cars of 1916 had a twin ohc, 4-cylinder, 16-valve engine reminiscent of the Peugeot. The touring Premier car of 1919 – 1920 was notable mainly for its use of the Cutler-Hammer Magnetic Gear Shift, an electric transmission system controlled by a lever mounted on the steering wheel. The ohv 4.8-litre engine of the Premier car was an unusually advanced six, with aluminium block, crankcase and pistons, and iron liners.

GB, 1906 – 1907; 1912 – 1913

Premier Motor Co Ltd, Birmingham

The Premier car company were concessionaires for the Italian Marchand car, and the 1906 4-cylinder Premier car was, in fact, a Marchand. Towards the end of 1906 Premier cars launced a short-lived two-seater of their own design powered by a 10/12hp Aster engine, but no further Premier cars appeared until the cyclecar boom of 1912. This brought two distinct designs of Premier cars: the PMC Motorette 3-wheeler with a rear-mounted 6hp single-cylinder engine driving the rear wheel by chains; and the more conventional Premier car, a 4-wheeler using an 8hp 2-cylinder engine, and chain drive.

D, 1913 – 1914

Justus Christian Braun Premier – Werke AG, Nuremberg

After producing the Kaiser cars this firm offered a new model in 1913 under the name of Premier. This Premier car was a two-seater sports car with a 1.030cc 4/12PS engine. This Premier car was also built in the company’s Austrian factory at Eger and was marketed as the Omega.

Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; TRN, GNG, HON

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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’.