AL Dyke Automobile Supply Company

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AL Dyke Automobile Supply Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1904
Seat St. Louis , Missouri , USA
management Robert Britton
Branch Automobiles

Dyke from 1901 in a Spanish museum

AL Dyke Automobile Supply Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company names

The company itself gave the former name The Automobile Supply Company and the current name The St. Louis Automobile and Supply Company in its 1902 Catalog No. 7 . An advertisement from the company writes St. Louis Automobile and Supply Company , so the article is omitted. AL Dyke Automobile Supply Company is recorded for 1903 and 1904 .

Other well-known company names are: AL Dyke Auto Supply Company , Dyke Auto Supply Company (1903-1904), Dyke Steam Carriage , St. Louis Automobile Supply & Parts Company and St. Louis Automobile & Supply Company (until 1902).

Company history

Andrew Lee Dyke had produced a vehicle with a gasoline engine as early as 1896 . He founded the company in 1899 in St. Louis , Missouri . He worked as a supplier for the automotive industry. Demand was low at the time. The California Motor Car Company accepted chassis . He also manufactured kit cars , chassis and kits for kit cars. The brand name was Dyke . Any ordinary mechanic should be able to assemble the vehicles. One source gives 1901 as the preliminary end of production of complete vehicles. However, vehicles for 1902 and 1903 have also survived. In 1904 Robert Britton was the president. In the same year they manufactured complete vehicles of the Dyke-Britton brand . On August 30, 1904, Dyke sold the company to his partners Robert and Roy Britton.

In 1898 or 1899, Dyke also founded the St. Louis Electric Automobile Company . It is unclear to what extent this company was legally independent. Electric cars were built here from 1898 or 1899 . According to a source, it was the first electric cars made west of the Mississippi River . Dyke and St. Louis have been handed down as brand names . The vehicles were powered by an electric motor with an output of 2.5 hp. The Scott Automobile Company took over this company in 1901.

From 1906 to 1907 Dyke was involved in the DLG Motor Car Company . From 1909 he was successful as an author .

vehicles

One of the kit cars is referred to in the literature with the model name Automotorette . Contemporary reports as well as a literature source use the spelling Automorette . It was a small vehicle with a superstructure as a runabout . A single-cylinder engine with 5 HP powered the vehicles. The curb weight was given as 340 kg. Automorette No. 0 from 1901 was based on a single piece from EM Senseeney and was available both as a complete kit and as a kit .

Other kit cars had single and two-cylinder engines that developed between 5 and 12 hp. Depending on the design, the superstructures offered space for two, four or five people. Pneumatic tires and solid rubber tires were available.

A delivery van has also come down to us for 1900 .

The electric cars were available as Stanhope and Runabout.

An advertisement for steam cars has come down to us from 1902 . One or two of these vehicles still exist.

The Dyke-Britton had a four-cylinder engine with 20 hp. The engine was water-cooled . The chassis had a wheelbase of 244 cm . The vehicle was bodied as a touring car. The original price was 2500 US dollars .

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 90 and 510 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 474 (English).

Web links

Commons : Dyke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 510 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 474 (English).
  3. ↑ Catalog No. 7 of the company from 1902 (PDF; English, accessed on January 6, 2018)
  4. ↑ Advertisement by the company (accessed on January 6, 2018)
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h American Automobiles zu Dyke (English, accessed January 6, 2018)
  6. ↑ Cars (accessed January 6, 2018)
  7. ↑ a b c Virtual Steam Car Museum (accessed January 6, 2018)
  8. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Dyke, Dyke-Britton.
  9. ↑ Early American Automobiles (accessed January 6, 2018)
  10. ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 90 (English).
  11. ^ Advertisement of the company from 1901 (English, accessed on January 6, 2018)
  12. ^ The Horseless Age of June 19, 1901. (accessed January 6, 2018)
  13. ^ David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Greenwich Editions, London 2004, ISBN 0-86288-258-3 , p. 265 (English).
  14. ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1339-1340 (English).
  15. ↑ www.autopasion18.com (Spanish, accessed January 6, 2018)
  16. ↑ a b American Automobiles on Dyke-Britton (English, accessed January 6, 2018)