Ales (car brand)

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Ales
owner Hakuyosha Ironworks
Introductory year 1921
Products Automobiles
Markets Japan

Ales was a Japanese car brand.

Brand history

The engineer Junya Toyokawa, who had studied mechanical engineering in the USA , manufactured automobiles for the Hakuyosha Ironworks company in Tokyo in 1921 , which were marketed as ales . One source states that production ran until around 1924 and another until 1926. A total of twelve vehicles were made.

The company was more successful with its successor, which was marketed as Otomo between 1924 and 1927 and found around 270 buyers.

vehicles

The Model S had an engine with 780 cc displacement and 7 PS power. The front engine drove the rear wheels. The only structure was a Phaeton with two seats. The presentation was in 1921 and production ended in 1924. They were prototypes .

The Model M was greater. Engines with 1610 cm³ displacement and 9 HP output as well as 1770 cm³ displacement and 12 or 20 HP output are mentioned. They were water cooled . The body shape was also a Phaeton, but with four seats. The presentation took place in 1921. The construction period ran from 1923 to 1926.

Ten more vehicles followed.

Another source states that they were all four-cylinder engines .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Ales.
  • Jan P. Norbye: Cars made in Japan. Corporations · Data · Facts. All makes and models 1912–1992. Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen 1991, ISBN 3-88350-161-1 , p. 28.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Ales.
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 27 (English). and George Nicholas Georgano (Eds.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1160 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Jan P. Norbye: Cars made in Japan. Corporations · Data · Facts. All makes and models 1912–1992. Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen 1991, ISBN 3-88350-161-1 , p. 28.
  4. ^ A b c Jeremy Risdon: Pomchi Book of Cars, Vans & Light Trucks. Volume 1. Japan 1902-1934 . Pomchi Press, Yate 2017, ISBN 978-1-5332-8268-2 , pp. 76-81 (English).
  5. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed April 16, 2016)