Lion (automobile)
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The Lion was an automobile built in Adrian, Michigan
, United States
, by the Lion Motor Car Company from 1909-12. The Lion had a four-cylinder 40 hp engine, and was available in at least three body types. The 1912 model cost $1,600 and came equipped with internal expanding brakes with drums of 14 inches (355.6 mm) diameter. A fire in 1912 destroyed 150 cars in the factory, and the company never recovered and closed.
The Lion Motor Car Company also produced the Gyroscope
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Adrian, Michigan
As of the 2010 census Adrian had a population of 21,133. The racial and ethnic makeup of the population was 84.1% white, 4.4% black or African American, 0.6% Native American, 0.9% Asian, 5.9% from some other race and 4.0% from two or more races...
, United States
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, by the Lion Motor Car Company from 1909-12. The Lion had a four-cylinder 40 hp engine, and was available in at least three body types. The 1912 model cost $1,600 and came equipped with internal expanding brakes with drums of 14 inches (355.6 mm) diameter. A fire in 1912 destroyed 150 cars in the factory, and the company never recovered and closed.
The Lion Motor Car Company also produced the Gyroscope
Gyroscope (automobile)
The Gyroscope was a brass era automobile built in Detroit, Michigan first by the Blomstrom Manufacturing Company in 1908, and then the Lion Motor Car Company in Adrian, Michigan in 1909. They Gyroscope was so named because of its engine, a horizontal, opposed two-cylinder engine, which had a...
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