Automobile Construction [2]

The Automobile Construction & Engineering Company was an early American car manufacturer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rather than selling directly to private buyers, the firm concentrated its efforts on supplying vehicles to dealers, building cars to customer specifications.

Its offering centered on a package that included a four-cylinder Continental engine, a three-speed gearbox, and shaft drive, paired with what was described as a first-class body. This complete package was priced at 675 dollars, positioning it as an accessible option for dealers seeking assembled vehicles to sell onward.

A distinctive engineering feature of the company's cars was the unusually rearward placement of the engine within the chassis, a departure from more conventional layouts of the era.

Like many small assemblers of the period, the Automobile Construction & Engineering Company operated within a competitive market of firms building cars from purchased components rather than manufacturing them from the ground up, catering to a specific niche within the early American automotive trade.