Talk:Peter Cooper Hewitt

Truck engines
Peter Cooper Hewitt built the first engines for the company which would become Mack truck. Citation needed.

Lent 06:32, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Four years later and more is on the Internet :-) While both Peter Cooper Hewitt's obituaries in the main article mention his automotive inventions, neither obituary mentions the Hewitt Motor Company nor gives specifics about the inventions.

Most of the Mack related articles seems to point to Peter Cooper Hewitt's brother, Edward R. Hewitt, as the designer of the engines. Looks as if I was misinformed :-)

From Life Magazine Seems to imply his brother Edward R. Hewitt was the designer of the engines.

Here's a background from a Historical Marker sponsored by the state of Pennsylvania. 


 * Much of the credit for the design of these highly successful trucks goes to Edward R. Hewitt, son of noted iron manufacturer Abram Hewitt and grandson of the famous inventor Peter Cooper.

and also from:
 * 1914 ...
 * The Hewitt nameplate is discontinued.


 * 1916 ...
 * A new holding company, the International Motor Truck Corporation, is formed; it assumes the notes payable obligations of the International Motor Company and owns 98 percent of its stock. The International Motor Company, through its ownership of the Mack Brothers Motor Car Company, the Saurer Motor Company, and the Hewitt Motor Company, becomes the operating organization, with its main plants in Allentown, PA (Mack), Plainfield, NJ (Saurer), and Brooklyn, NY (Hewitt).

and also from

Transactions of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Volume 14, Issue 1 Society of Automotive Engineers The Principles of the Wheeled Farm Tractor By Edward R Hewitt ... Consulting engineer International Motor Co., New York City.

Lent (talk) 00:46, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

His Wifes
Most recent edits seem to have been made by author of forthcoming book about his daughter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.147.6.213 (talk) 18:04, 13 February 2021 (UTC)


 * "He was married to Lucy Bond Work who was the sister of Frances Ellen Work."?
 * http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0611FF3F5A1B7A93C4AB1783D85F458285F9 In 1887 he married Alice Work, a daughter of Frank Work and sister of Burke Roche. 1918 he married Pedar Bruguiere http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D13FD385417738DDDA10894D9415B808DF1D3 http://luirig.altervista.org/naturaitaliana/viewpics.php?title=Mrs.+Pedar+Bruguiere --Virtualiter (talk) 13:15, 18 January 2011 (UTC)