Lyons-Knight
# Lyons-Knight

The Lyons-Knight was an American automobile manufactured from 1913 until 1915 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

## History

Three brothers, James W., William P. and George W. Lyons purchased the Atlas Engine Works and reorganized as the Lyons-Atlas Company. The previous Atlas Company manufactured two-stroke gasoline and diesel engines, and had developed a line of gasoline engines using the Knight sleeve-valve design.

The Lyons-Knight featured Knight sleeve-valve engines and worm-drive rear axles, that were designed by Harry A. Knox who had previously worked at the Atlas-Knight Automobile Company in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Beginning in 1913, the Lyons-Knight Model K-4 offered a four-cylinder engine that produced 50-hp and was installed in a choice of five or seven passenger touring car, sedan, or berline bodies, using a 130-inch wheelbase. Prices started at $2,900 for the five passenger touring sedan while the berline sedan was $4,300.

For 1914 a Model K-6, six-cylinder engine was offered with the same wheelbase in either a five or seven passenger touring sedan for $3,200 (equivalent to $93,491 in 2022). In 1915 only the K-4 model was offered but with the addition of limousine and roadster bodies. Automobile manufacturing ended in 1915 soon after Harry Knox resigned from the company.

* 1913 Lyons-Knight Advertising
* 1914 Lyons-Knight Advertising

Lyons-Atlas Company continued building engines and manufactured Standard marine engines for Britain during World War I.

