Berg Automobile Company

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Berg Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1904
Reason for dissolution Sold to Worthington Automobile Company
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management Hart O. Berg
Branch Automobiles

Berg Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

As early as 1902, Hart O. Berg had announced that he would soon be bringing two "foreign type" cars onto the US market. He founded the company in Cleveland , Ohio in 1902 . The capital was 400,000 US dollars . In 1903 he started producing automobiles. The brand name was Berg . From July 1903, Euclid vehicles were added. The Worthington Automobile Company of New York City took over the company in 1904 and continued production of the Berg until 1905. Berg said goodbye to technology and financed new companies in the future. Among other things, he entered into a partnership with the Wright brothers .

vehicles

Brand name Berg

The mountain was a perfect copy of a contemporary French Panhard & Levassor model and was marketed as such. Obviously, Panhard & Levassor did not mind this approach, because they did not deliver any cars to the USA.

The car presented at the New York Automobile Show in January 1903 was a two-seat runabout with a two-cylinder engine . It was soon joined by a touring car with a four-cylinder in - line engine .

The mountain from 1904 was also a touring car. It was equipped with a tonneau, offered space for six people and cost US $ 3,500. The in-line four-cylinder engine installed upright at the front developed 24 bhp (17.6 kW). The engine power was passed on to the rear wheels via a four-speed spur gear. The wooden frame car had semi-elliptical leaf springs and was considered very modern at the time.

In 1905, the model from the previous year was essentially continued to be built, but there were two different bodies, one with side entry and one with entry from the rear.

model Construction period cylinder power wheelbase Superstructures
Runabout 1903 2 row 8 bhp (5.9 kW) 1981 mm Runabout 2 seats
Touring 1903 4 row 15 bhp (11 kW) 2286 mm Touring car 5 seats
Touring 1904-1905 4 row 24 bhp (17.6 kW) 2438 mm Touring car 5 seats

Brand name Euclid

JG Heaslet was the designer. A four-cylinder engine with 18 hp powered the vehicles. The wheelbase was 229 cm.

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. 119 and p. 549 (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. 156. (English)
  • Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (January 1904)

Web links

Commons : Berg 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. 119 and p. 549 (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. 156. (English)