Acorn Automobile Company

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Acorn Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
resolution 1912
Seat Cincinnati , Ohio , USA
Branch Commercial vehicles , automobiles

Acorn Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of commercial vehicles and automobiles .

Company history

Based in Cincinnati , Ohio , the company primarily manufactured commercial vehicles between 1910 and 1912 . For this purpose, some passenger cars were built according to customer orders. The brand name was Acorn .

There is no connection to the commercial vehicle manufacturer Acorn Motor Truck Company in Chicago (Illinois) announced the 1925-1931 also vans and trucks of the brand Acorn created.

vehicles

The 18/20 HP was a closed delivery van with a payload of around 450 kg . It had a two - cylinder boxer engine installed transversely at the front with an output of 18 hp using an unknown measuring method; It was usually calculated using the ALAM formula with a known cylinder bore. Power was transmitted to the rear wheels via a three-speed gearbox known as roller friction and two drive chains. Friction gears are usually continuously variable.

The few cars were runabouts or touring cars , i.e. open vehicles.

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. 16 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Eds.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles ; MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI, 1979 ISBN 0-87-341-024-6 . (English)
  • Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola WI, 1996; ISBN 0-87341-368-7 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Georgano / Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. 1979, p. 25 (English)
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 16 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. 1996, p. 9 (English)