Bertolet Motor Car Company

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Bertolet Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1909
resolution 1910
Seat Reading , Pennsylvania , USA
management JM Bertolet
Branch Automobiles

Bertolet Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

JM Bertolet produced individual automobiles from 1908, which he sold as Bertolet . It wasn't until 1909 that he founded the company in Reading , Pennsylvania . In 1910 the company was dissolved. Vehicles were made from existing parts until 1911.

vehicles

First there was the Type X model . It had a four-cylinder engine with 40 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 259 cm . A five-seat touring car was the standard body. There was also an interchangeable body to turn a touring car into a runabout .

In 1910 the Model 40 was in the range. The engine remained unchanged. The wheelbase was lengthened to 279 cm. The only body shape was a five-seater touring car.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1908-1909 Type X 4th 40 259 Touring car / runabout, touring car 5-seater
1910 Model 40 4th 40 279 5-seater touring car

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. 122 (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. 161. (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. 122 (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. 161. (English)