Cincinnati Motor Mfg. Co

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From 1914 to 1916 , the Cincinnati Motor Manufacturing Company produced trucks with payloads of 1 and 2 tons under the brand name Alter . sh. and four-cylinder engines.

The company was founded in Cincinnati ( Ohio ) in early 1912 to manufacture cars and trucks , although only the latter were actually built. The management consisted of Frank Alter , Harry A. Alter and JB Doan , the paid-in capital was US $ 10,000. Production in Cincinnati was short, if any. In April 1914 the share capital was increased to US $ 75,000. Probably at the same time the company was reorganized as the Alter Motor Car Company with Guy Hamilton as President. From 1911 to 1913 he headed the Gaylord Motor Car Company in Gaylord ( Michigan ), which had produced passenger cars and commercial vehicles from 1911 to 1913 with little success. Alter Motor's vice president (and likely principal financier) was CA Alter ; RA Skinner was the secretary and manager. A two-story new building was built in Plymouth, Michigan and was occupied in 1915. The new company also manufactured Alter- branded passenger cars and moved into one-story premises in Grand Haven, Michigan, the following year . Production probably stopped here because the company had to file for bankruptcy in January 1917. Around 1,000 four- and six-cylinder passenger cars and an unknown number of commercial vehicles were produced.

Shortly thereafter, Hamilton organized a new company, the Hamilton Motors Company , which only sold the Hamilton passenger car (a slightly modified Alter Four) in 1917, and the Panhard truck from 1917 to 1918 (it had nothing to do with the French automobiles and commercial vehicles of this name ) and built the Apex truck from 1919 to 1921 . There is also no connection to the car maker Apex Motor Corporation or any other Apex motor vehicle.

literature

  • Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon, all brands 1900 to today . Motorbuch Verlag; 3. Edition. 1998, ISBN 3613018373
  • GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 .
  • Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-368-7 .
  • Albert Mroz: American Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles of World War I: Illustrated Histories of 224 Manufacturers. Mcfarland & Company Publishers, Jefferson NC, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7864-3967-6 .
  • Robert Gabrick: American Delivery Truck: An Illustrated History. Enthusiast Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-58388-311-2 .
  • National Automobile Chamber of Commerce : Handbook of Automobiles 1915–1916. Dover Publications, 1970.
  • Walter MP McCall: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Fire Engine Manufacturers. Iconografix, Hudson WI 2009, ISBN 978-1-58388-252-8 .
  • Murray Fahnestock: Remember the CINO, Cincinnati built Car? In: The Post & Times Star. Cincinnati, Ohio, December 20, 1961. Mentioned Acorn, Armleder Trucks, Auto Buggy, Buggycar, Cincinnati Steam (1903), Cino, Crane & Breed Ambulances (and Undertakers), C. & B., Enger, Ohio, Powercar, Sayers & Scovill, Schacht, US Truck

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Halwart Schrader, Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. 1998.
  2. ↑ a b Kimes / Cark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (1996), p. 355 (Cincinnati Motor Mfg)
  3. ↑ Kimes / Cark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (1996), p. 632 (Gaylord)
  4. ↑ a b Kimes / Cark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805–1942 (1996), p. 29 (Alter Pkw)
  5. ↑ Kimes / Cark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 (1996), p. 671 (Hamilton)
  6. ↑ Mroz: American Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles of World War I. 2009, p. 12 (old truck)