two blocks of three instead of three pairs. In late 1914, the Simplex Automobile Company of New Brunswick, New Jersey bought Crane Motor Car Company to acquire his engineering advances. The Crane factory in Bayonne was sold to the Car Lighting & Power Company in August 1915. Simplex was the maker of "one of the finest and most exclusive luxury cars built in the USA before World War I." Crane became vice president and engineer for Simplex. The Crane Model 4, became the Simplex Crane Model 5. From the beginning of the announcement of the Simplex purchase of Crane, The Automobile magazine referred to the new car as Crane-Simplex, only mentioning later in the September 1915 article that it was the Crane model of Simplex The article describes the new six cylinder shaft driven car with 100-hp at 2000-rpm. In the August 1916 Automobile Topics magazine 2- page article, the new cars was described as the "Model 5 Simplex-Crane -- or plain Simplex". Although never official, the Simplex Crane Model 5 would often be referred to as the Crane-Simplex. Crane created a new car called the Crane Model 46 H.P. Six-Cylinder Simplex or the Simplex-Crane Model 5, which was similar to his Crane Model 4, but on a longer wheelbase. The Model 5 was "fitted with a six-cylinder motor of 563 cubic inches piston displacement, developing a maximum of 110 h.p. The cylinders are of the L-head type and are cast in blocks of three, with the value springs fully enclosed." This 5,300-pound car was fast—reaching up to 65 or 68 miles per hour. Owners also expected a smooth ride and effortless performance. This was achieved with a new design for springs that reduced lateral shock when a wheel went into a pothole or if the driver took a curve at a high speed. At the time, a newspaper reported, "The six-cylinder power plant on which the Crane-Simplex Company has established its reputation for mechanical excellence, is the result of H. M. Crane's engineering genius." Between 1915 and 1916, Crane designed and oversaw the fabrication of Crane-Simplex automobiles at the New Brunswick factory. Production was limited to 300 cars per year, the maximum output of the company's 800 employees who worked in three shifts, day and night. Each engine went through the equivalent of 1,000 miles of road travel on a belt test that took 36 hours, as well as