American Steam Truck Company

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American Steam Truck Company
legal form Company
founding 1918
resolution 1924
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
management RR Howard
Branch Automobiles

American Steam Truck Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

RR Howard founded the company in 1918. The headquarters were located at 20 East Jackson Boulevard in Chicago , Illinois and the factory in Elgin . In 1918 a first prototype was created , which was described in the press in 1920. A commercial vehicle with a steam engine in April 1922 was followed in May 1922 by passenger cars with steam engines. The brand name was American Steamer . Five steam cars were built in the first month and another eleven by the end of 1922. Production ended in 1924 when the company went bankrupt . One source gives the total production number as 16.

vehicles

The steam engine was a two-cylinder engine . It only had 17 moving parts. In the first year, the passenger cars were only available as touring cars and from 1923 as coupé , sedan , roadster and touring cars.

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)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. ^ A b 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)