Coats Steamer is the promotion of American steam cars by George A. Coats. A company is formed and maybe two prototypes are assembled. Five different designs are described. The first is by the "Norwegian engineer" and uses two radial three-cylinder engines on the rear axle, one powering each wheel. The second is by James Yeikichi Sakuyama, for many years an engine designer in Indianapolis, with a V-3 engine, a gearbox and a grid steam generator. It quickly turned into a fire vapor steam generator and a flat inline-3 cylinder engine in the chassis. The fourth design took the chassis and the Sakuyama machine and replaced the steam system at the end of 1923 with the French patent design Charles A. The French-Coats are technically the most superior, perhaps the most likely functional, and the cars used in photographs. The fifth design was just a chassis of Purdue professor Allen C. Staley, featured as a high-class Coats steamer in three shows. The price of the car remains the same at $ 1085 during the promotion, and dealers and distributors are sold to finance development and sales efforts. Eventually Coats gained the trust of Y. F. Stewart who owns the manufacturing facility. A pickle factory in Bowling Green, Ohio was obtained and a coachbuilder plant in Columbus, Ohio was purchased. The Cumberland tire company is shown in advertising as the third factory, as they will become tire suppliers. All disappeared in mid-1924 when the Columbus plant was sold. Coats went on to many enthusiastic promotions including road building equipment in 1924 in New Jersey and inadvertently became one of the syndicate creators who quickly became CBS. She lives on a promotional radio in New York City and is buried in a family funeral in Indiana.
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References
- David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles .
- John Bentley, "Coats", in The Old Car Book, Number 168, Fawcett Books, copyright 1952 p. 106 (many errors)
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