California Motors

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California Motors Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1923
resolution 1925
Seat Los Angeles , California , USA
management
  • Martin Andrew Leach
  • Samuel G. Miles
Branch Automobiles

California Motors was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Martin Andrew Leach, who also ran the Leach Motor Car Company , founded the company in Los Angeles , California in 1923 . Samuel G. Miles was his partner. They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was California . The numbers remained low. Production ended in 1925.

It had no affiliation with any of the other California- branded vehicle manufacturers : California Automobile Company , California Motor Company, and California Automobile Company .

vehicles

Harry A. Miller designed the only model. A special feature was the four-cylinder engine with OHV valve control . It made 50 hp . The only known body shape was an open touring car with space for five people.

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. 247 (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. 239. (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. 247 (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. 239. (English)