Blumberg Motor Manufacturing Company

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Blumberg Motor Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1925
Seat Orange , Texas , USA
management Hamilton Gustave Blumberg
Branch Automobiles , tractors

The Blumberg Motor Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles and tractors .

Company history

The company was founded as a family business on June 1, 1914 in San Antonio , Texas . Hamilton Gustave Blumberg became president, his brother Randolph Julius became vice-president and his brother-in-law AD Fischer became treasurer. In addition, Onkel HD and Joseph Hierholzer worked in the company. The company was officially registered in August 1915. The headquarters were relocated to Orange , also in Texas. The main product was an engine that was mostly installed in tractors . In addition, from 1915 to 1922 a number of passenger cars were built that were marketed as Blumberg . After the end of vehicle production, parts were manufactured and vehicles from the Mitchell Motors Company were sold. In 1925 the company was dissolved.

Products

Hamilton Blumberg designed the engine. It was claimed that it would work so cool that there was no need for a fan or grille.

Both four-cylinder engines and V8 engines were available for the passenger cars . A seven-seater touring car has survived and was offered for $ 3,000 . Many parts were made in-house.

The tractors were marketed as the Blumberg Steady Pull . It seems to have been a conventional design that was developed from 1914 and came onto the market around 1915. First, the Steady Pull 12-24 appeared with the in-house four-cylinder engine mentioned. Bore and stroke , probably rounded, are 4 × 5 inches (101.6 × 127 mm), giving a displacement of around 250 cubic inches (approx. 4.1 liters). The type designation usually refers to the power on the drawbar (12 bhp) and on the PTO shaft (24 bhp).

In 1919 the range was expanded to include the Blumberg Steady Pull 9-18 . The model was a scaled down version of the 12-24 . Typically, tractor engines of this time were long-stroke , with a bore that was about 70 to 80 percent of the stroke. However, this tractor received a four-cylinder engine, probably also developed in-house, with a square ratio of bore and stroke of 3.75 inches (95.25 mm) each. This results in a displacement of 165.7 cubic inches or 2.7 liters. After 1924 Blumberg tractors are no longer detectable.

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. 135 (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. 171 (English).
  • Charles H. Wendel: Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors 1890-1980. Krause Publications, Iola WI, 2005; ISBN 0-87349-726-0 .

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. 135 (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. 171 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Wendel: Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors 1890-1980. 2005, p. 113.