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Truck engines

Peter Cooper Hewitt built the first engines for the company which would become Mack truck. Citation needed.

Lent 06:32, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Four years later and more is on the Internet :-) While both Peter Cooper Hewitt's obituaries in the main article mention his automotive inventions, neither obituary mentions the Hewitt Motor Company nor gives specifics about the inventions.

Most of the Mack related articles seems to point to Peter Cooper Hewitt's brother, Edward R. Hewitt, as the designer of the engines. Looks as if I was misinformed :-)

From Life Magazine [1] Seems to imply his brother Edward R. Hewitt was the designer of the engines.

Here's a background from a Historical Marker sponsored by the state of Pennsylvania. [2]

Much of the credit for the design of these highly successful trucks goes to Edward R. Hewitt, son of noted iron manufacturer Abram Hewitt and grandson of the famous inventor Peter Cooper.

and also from: [3]

1914 ...
The Hewitt nameplate is discontinued.
1916 ...
A new holding company, the International Motor Truck Corporation, is formed; it assumes the notes payable obligations of the International Motor Company and owns 98 percent of its stock. The International Motor Company, through its ownership of the Mack Brothers Motor Car Company, the Saurer Motor Company, and the Hewitt Motor Company, becomes the operating organization, with its main plants in Allentown, PA (Mack), Plainfield, NJ (Saurer), and Brooklyn, NY (Hewitt).

and also from

Transactions of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Volume 14, Issue 1 Society of Automotive Engineers The Principles of the Wheeled Farm Tractor By Edward R Hewitt ... Consulting engineer International Motor Co., New York City.[4]

Lent (talk) 00:46, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

His Wifes

Most recent edits seem to have been made by author of forthcoming book about his daughter.