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1915 Simplex Crane Model 5 Sport Berline
Bonhams • US • 3 Jun 2012
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1915 Simplex Crane Model 5 Sport Berline
US • 3 Jun 2012
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This 1915 Simplex Crane Model 5 Sport Berline, with coachwork by Brewster, is a magnificently opulent automobile that survives virtually as it was new. Having been owned by a fastidious West Coast collector, who acquired the car from Bonhams in 2007, the car has been methodically worked through to provide a usable and long distance car.
Condition
7
The car is described as highly original and complete, with a patinated but unworn interior. It has received some paintwork and detail attention in the past, but otherwise has been well-preserved. Recent work has been done to ensure it is usable for long distances, indicating a focus on maintaining its mechanical condition.
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22,000 miles
LHD
United States
2168
1915
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1915 Simplex Crane Model 5 Sport Berline
Bonhams • US • 3 Jun 2012
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Description
This magnificently opulent automobile is one of the finest statements of luxury of its day, that it survives virtually as it was new is all the more remarkable and impressive.
The car’s stately proportions would not be possible without the underpinning of a substantial mechanical aspect, the origins of which belong with the Simplex Automobile Company and with Henry Middlebrook Crane.
Crane graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1896, with degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering.
He then joined the Bell Telephone Company, and later worked for their manufacturing subsidiary, the Western Electric Company.
His Crane and Whitman Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, formed in 1906, evolved into the Crane Motor Car Company by 1910.
In 1912, his design for the Crane Model 3 automobile was ready for production.
It was a large, refined luxury car, but "production" it barely achieved, with some 37 cars built in three years.
Around this time, the Simplex Automobile ...
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£77,595
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