American Steam Automobile Company

American Steam Automobile Company
legal form	Company
founding	1920s
resolution	1942
Seat	West Newton , Massachusetts , USA
management	Thomas S. Derr
Branch	Automobiles

American Steam Car from 1935 in an English car museum

emblem

American Steam Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Thomas S. Derr graduated from Harvard University . He was interested in steam engines and ran a workshop in West Newton , Massachusetts , which dealt with the service, repair and rebuilding of steam cars for the Stanley Motor Carriage Company . In 1926 he began to manufacture automobiles himself under the American Steam Car brand . One vehicle was exported to England . Production ended in 1942.

vehicles

Derr's first steam car from 1926 had a Hudson chassis and body and a revised Stanley steam engine. Then Derr developed his own steam engine. In 1939 there were twelve of these engines in his workshop. One author estimates that around six vehicles were built from it by 1942.

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. 47 (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 , p. 53. (English)

Web links

Commons : American Steam Automobile Company  - Collection of pictures, 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. 47 (English).
2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 53. (English)