1913 Lozier Type 72 Briarcliff
by Jack Pumphrey
Title
1913 Lozier Type 72 Briarcliff
Artist
Jack Pumphrey
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Watercolor painting of the 1913 Lozier type 72 Briarcliff roadster, the Lozier automobile started production in Plattsburgh, New York, by Henry Lozier and his son Harry. After quite a career of manufacturing sewing machines, bicycles and boat engines, Lozier wanted to find a new product to produce. Lozier instructed engineers George Burwell and John Perrin to work on a new product to manufacture. Both men wanted to build an automobile and through reverse engineering of a Mercedes-Benz that was in an accident, they quickly learned how to build the strongest most durable automobile of the time. Being very much perfectionists they used over fifty sets of ball bearings with special alloys for less wear and no breakdowns. The team also designed one of the first automatic lubricating systems by just pumping a floor peddle once to oil all the different parts needing lube on a regular basis.
In 1911, Ralph Mulford drove a Lozier to a second place in the first Indy 500. Much controversy followed with many believing the Lozier won the race not Ray Harroun in his modified Marmon. Lozier had the first Lozier built in 1898, then another test car in 1901 before finally settling on production in 1905 and lasting through 1918 with a production plant move from Plattsburgh to Detroit in 1910.
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