Okey Motor Car Company
Okey Motor Car Company was an early American automaker manufactured between 1896 and 1907.
History
Perry Okey Around 1894 designed and built an internal combustion engine. The water-cooled single - cylinder was a four-stroke engine Apparently, the small engine ran satisfactorily. His Tricycle initially had a turn, self-designed single-cylinder four-stroke engine and water cooling. Later, Okey experimented with a similar, air-cooled engine. Tricycles were also considered at the time as automobiles. For 1896 Perry Oakey built an automobile. He is considered the first who built in Columbus a motor vehicle and drove it.
From 1900 Okey seems to have operated the automobile industry as a craft in a one-man operation. The vehicles developed thereby were of high technical and innovative quality. 1901 was a runabout with single-cylinder engine, planetary gear and chain drive. It had 14 bhp (10.4 kW) power at 1000 rpm and reached 35 mph (55 km / h). 1905 was the fifth car. It had a front-mounted two-cylinder two - stroke engine, a drive shaft and turn a planetary gear. Four vehicles of this type were built until the end of 1905. Also, in 1905 then founding the Okey Motor Car Company Automobile Trade Journal, Hugh Dolnar, was able to test one of the two-cylinder models in 1905 and was very impressed by it.
In the short time of its existence, the company offered nine different models with Its engine a three - cylinder four - stroke engine with 4 inches (101.6 mm) bore and 6 inches (152.4 mm) stroke and a displacement of 226.2 ci (3707 cc). This engine had overhead, controlled valves and one of Okey developed carburettor, which featured an annular float, needle valves and an additional air supply by means of an "automatic" valve mounted between carburettor and engine.
The 20 HP Model L-7 a two-seat runabout with a wheelbase of 90 inches (2286 mm). The vehicle was a slightly enlarged development of the 14 HP with a three-cylinder two-stroke engine. With a price of US $ 1400 Already in November 1907 the insolvency had to be applied for. In December, the estate administrator approved the continuation of production until the execution of the existing orders. The company was apparently liquidated by 1908 The only product at the time was a slight runabout with three cylinders and 20 HP power at US $ 1400.
This was followed by a limited production on a craft basis. The model with water-cooled single - cylinder four-stroke engine had a planetary gear and chain drive. It delivered 14 bhp (10 kW) at 1000 rpm and reached a top speed of 35 mph (50 km / h)
Okey also produced the carburettors themselves. He held a patent for a carburettor with annular float, needle valves and an automatic valve between carburettor and engine for additional air supply. The drive was a planetary gear and a drive shaft to the rear axle.
