American Coleman Company

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Coleman Motors Corporation
American Coleman Company
legal form Company
founding 1925
resolution 1986
Seat Littleton , Colorado , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Airport tug from 1961

American Coleman Company , previously Coleman Motors Corporation , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The Coleman Motors Corporation was founded in 1925 in Littleton in Colorado for the production of commercial vehicles established. The brand name was Coleman . Between 1933 and 1935, five passenger cars were also made as prototypes , designed by Harleigh Holmes. In 1949, still under the old company name, production initially ended. It was resumed in 1952 under the name American Coleman Company and finally abandoned in 1986.

vehicles

The first trucks were four-wheel drive . Later vehicles had a payload of up to 10 tons . The United States Army removed many vehicles during World War II . Some vehicles after 1952 had a diesel engine and all-wheel steering. Also articulated lorries have survived.

The car had a V8 engine from Ford . The first two vehicles were front-wheel drive , the last three rear-wheel drive. An illustration shows a two-door sedan .

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. 354 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 322-323. (English)
  • Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 35.

Web links

Commons : American Coleman Company  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 354 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 322-323. (English)
  3. ↑ a b Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 35.