Ball (make of car)

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Ball was an American automobile brand.

Brand history

Charles A. Ball was from Paterson , New Jersey . Here he manufactured a steam car for his own use in 1868 .

From 1901 he worked for the Miami Cycle and Manufacturing Company in Middletown , Ohio . Here he made another steam wagon called the Ramapaugh Steamer . Ball left Ohio after a vehicle accident in April 1902 that was fatal for a boy.

He returned to his homeland. Here he founded a new company and manufactured two more vehicles by 1903, which were sold.

vehicles

The only models were steam cars. The Ramapaugh Steamer was a large vehicle that could accommodate eight people. It weighed around 1800 kg. The steam engine made 60 hp . The Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City bought the vehicle.

The two vehicles from the last company were comparable to the Ramapaugh Steamer . They were for 10,000 US dollars sold.

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. 102 (English).
  • 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. 129 (English).

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. 102 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 129 (English).