thumb|250px|1908 Lozier, Model I (i) [[touring car]]

thumb|Lozier Model H (1908-1910)

The Lozier Motor Company was a brass era producer of luxury automobiles in the United States. The company produced automobiles from 1900 to 1918, in Plattsburgh, New York and from 1910, at Detroit, Michigan.

History

Lozier Motor Company was founded by Henry Abram Lozier, an Indiana-born sewing machine and bicycle manufacturer. After selling his bicycle business, Lozier moved to Plattsburgh to manufacture boat engines. In 1900, he entered the automobile business. At his death in 1903, his son Harry took over the company.

Loziers were luxury cars and for a time were the most expensive cars produced in the United States. The 1910 model line featured cars priced between $4,600 and $7,750, (). The company developed its braking system using pressurized water to cool hollowed brake drums. This led to claims that Lozier's brakes were "impossible to burn out".

The company faced new pressures as more manufacturers entered the luxury market. Frederick C. Chandler, Lozier's top designer, left the company in 1913 and formed the Chandler Motor Company which produced cars similar to the Lozier but at a substantially lower sales price. Chandler took several top company executives with him producing a brain drain from which the company never recovered.

Because of Lozier's limited market niche, the company only produced a few thousand cars during its lifespan. Production peaked in the 1912 model year at 600 cars.

  • Lozier Model D Limousine
  • Lozier Model E Touring
  • Lozier Model F Limousine
  • Lozier Model G
  • Lozier Model H
  • Lozier Model I

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| thumb|The Lozier Motor Company of New York City – 1905

| thumb|Image from a 1912 advertisement for a Lozier touring car priced at $5,000.

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See also

  • List of defunct United States automobile manufacturers
  • List of automobile manufacturers

References

  • The Lozier at conceptcarz
  • Race Pictures by Photographer James Walter Collinge 3.,4., 9. picture: Teddy Tetzlaff in a Lozier.