The Auburn Car Parade In Williamsport, 1932

 April 28 1932 - Auburn Automobile Parade in Williamsport Pa

[LL. Sterns is on the left]

The Auburn Automobile used a Lycoming Engine, manufactured in Williamsport.

The parking lot in front of Lycoming Foundry and Machine Company, looking north with Wildwood Cemetery hill in the background.

Lycoming produced its first automobile engine for Velie Motor Corporation.

They went on to make more than 250 automobile engine models, for car manufacturers including Cord, Auburn, Dusenberg, Locomobile, Paige, Graham, McFarlan and Checker.

1932

"The Lycoming R-680 engine was designed in the ’20’s, first run in 1929 with over 26,000 produced from 1930 to 1945 in Williamsport, PA. It was the first aero engine produced by the Lycoming company which started as an automobile engine manufacturer and was a major supplier to Auburn. 

In 1927 Errett Lobban Cord bought the company, placing it under his Auburn Manufacturing umbrella group. Among the engines Lycoming produced for Cord was an L-head straight-eight engine of 298.5 cu. in. displacement that produced 125 horsepower. This was used in the Cord L-29. 

Lycoming also produced a double overhead cam straight 8 used in the legendary Duesenberg J series. This powerplant produced 265 horsepower, six times the power of a contemporary Model A Ford. A supercharged version, generating 325 horsepower, was installed in the Duesenberg SJ and SSJ models.

By 1931, the company was supplying automotive engines to only three companies: Auburn, Cord and Duesenburg, still all under the control of Cord. These companies closed their doors in 1937, after which Lycoming switched to exclusively designing and producing engines for aviation."

Lycoming Engines began  as a company called Demorest.  Madame Ellen Curtis Demorest founded the Demorest Manufacturing company in 1856. Over the next 60 years, Demorest produced sewing machines, bicycles, typewriters, duplicators, gas irons, and printing presses.

The Demorest Manufacturing Co, Williamsport Pa

The building became the Lycoming Foundry in 1907

Lycoming Motors

Lycoming Motors, Lycoming MFG Co, Spencer Heaters

Lycoming Motors Employees, 1928

In 1937, Auburn, which owned the Lycoming Engine Company, was in bankruptcy proceedings.  By the early 1940s, the Lycoming company was owned by AVCo.

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The Auburn Automobile Company was founded on September 30, 1903 by Charles Eckhart and his sons Frank E. and Morris Eckhart in Auburn, Indiana. The men had built their first automobile in 1900, while with the Eckhart Carriage Company. Its industry was motor cars and its headquarters remained in Auburn, Indiana. In 1919, the firm was acquired by a group of Chicago investors. It was purchased by Erret L. Cord in 1926. The company ceased manufacturing in 1936 and filed for bankruptcy the following year.

In 1938, Auburn was sold to Dallas Winslow, who also purchased the rights to the "Cord" and "Duesenberg" names. The remaining remaining assets of the company were reorganized as the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company, which offered replacement parts and servicing for Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg automobiles. The business was purchased by Glenn Pray in 1960 and moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. From 1968 until 1978, the company returned to manufacturing Auburn and Cord automobiles using older bodies with newer technology. Presently, the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company offers replacement parts, restoration services, and original automobiles for sale.

A 1936 Cord 810 Cabriolet, designed by Gordon Buehrig

Included a Lycoming V-8 Engine, and a pre-selector transmission.  Only 3000 were made, between 1936 & 1937