Automotive Corporation

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Automotive Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1918 or earlier
resolution 1922
Seat Toledo , Ohio , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Automotive Corporation was an American manufacturer of tractors and automobiles .

Company history

Automotive Corporation share dated July 28, 1920

The company was founded in Fort Wayne , Indiana , around 1918 . There it manufactured tractors of the Automotive brand . It also acquired the remains of the Sun Motor Car Company . The supply of spare parts for their Sun cars was maintained. A 1919 advertisement confirms Fort Wayne. In 1920 the company moved to Toledo , Ohio . In 1921 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Sun . Production ended in 1922.

vehicles

The tractors initially had a four-cylinder engine of Buda . 95.25 mm bore and 139.7 mm stroke resulted in 3982 cc displacement . From 1920 onwards, a four-cylinder Hercules engine was used. It had 101.6 mm bore, 130.175 mm stroke and 4221 cm³ displacement.

The only passenger car model had a four-cylinder air-cooled engine . It was specified with 10/12 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 231 or 249 cm, depending on the source . The body was an open roadster . It cost 375 in the first year US dollar and last year US dollars 475th The maximum speed was given as 80 km / h.

Plans for 1923 were for larger, more powerful, and more expensive vehicles. They could no longer be implemented.

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. 1449-1450 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1542 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 1449-1450 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1542 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Farm Tractors (English, accessed on March 16, 2019)
  4. ^ Advertisement by the company, dated 1919 (English, accessed on March 16, 2019)