EWING

Cleveland Auto Cab Co. (1908)
Ewing Automobile Co. (1909-1911)
Geneva, Ohio

This is a Ewing radiator script (c1909)   dkc
Size: 90mm wide 45mm high

The Ewing taxicab, designed by Louis P. Mooers and built by the Cleveland Auto Cab Company, was an attractive motor vehicle. Production began earlier in 1908 but the Ewing was introduced at the Ninth International Automobile Show at Central Palace, New York on New Year's Eve in December 1908. Levi Edward Ewing was a substantial investor in the Cleveland Auto Cab Company and by February 1909, he had taken over the company and renamed it the Ewing Automobile Company.  

The Ewing was available as a taxicab or as a town car both powered by a four-cylinder 24 hp engine. About thirty Ewing cars were built in 1908 and another forty-seven in 1909. 

Ewing found it difficult to recruit and maintain a workforce of skilled mechanics in the small town of Geneva and considered a move to Erie, Pennsylvania but in October 1909 he sold out to William C. Durant, who was building his General Motors empire. Durant closed the Ewing Automobile Company in June 1911. 

Emblem

The only original photo I have seen of a Ewing town car does not show a radiator emblem, see below:

Ewing town car (1909)      scac

It is noted that a Ewing nameplate, possibly a serial plate, is mounted on the outside of the dash firewall.

However, a brass Ewing radiator script does exist, see photo shown at the top of this post. It is believed that this Ewing radiator script is original and may be from a Ewing taxicab. Original Ewing radiator scripts and nameplates are very rare. 

If you have details of any other Ewing emblems or nameplates, please let me know, in order to update this post.