Carter Motor Car Company

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Carter Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1921
resolution 1922
Seat Washington, DC , USA
management
  • A. Gary Carter
  • Frank L. Carter
  • LL Stephens
Branch Automobiles

Carter Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The brothers A. Gary Carter and Frank L. Carter had previously gained experience in the automotive industry at their Washington Motor Car Company and Carter Brothers Motor Company . In October 1921 they founded the company together with LL Stephens. The headquarters were again in Washington, DC and the plant in Hyattsville , Maryland . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Cartermobile . Production ended in 1922. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

There was no association with the Carter Motor & Manufacturing Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

The only model was a cheap vehicle and should against the Ford Model T to compete. A four-cylinder engine with L-head of Herschell-Spillman powered vehicles. The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm . Open touring cars and two closed vehicles have survived. The original price was 895 US dollars . By comparison, the Ford Model T cost between $ 355 and $ 450 as a touring car at the time.

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. 260 (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. 251. (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. 260 (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. 251. (English)