Coates-Goshen Automobile Company

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Coates-Goshen Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1911
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Goshen , New York , USA
management Joseph Saunders Coates
Branch Automobiles

Coates-Goshen Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Joseph Saunders Coates had already made an automobile in 1905. In 1908 he founded a company in Goshen in the US state of New York . In 1909 he presented a vehicle at an automobile show in New York's Crystal Palace . The brand name was Coates-Goshen . Production ended in 1910 after a fire destroyed the factory. Bankruptcy followed in October 1911 .

A total of 32 vehicles were built. Fritzi Scheff and Monty Woolley were among the buyers .

vehicles

In 1909, the model names consisted of the word model plus horsepower as a number. In 1910, Model was dropped , instead the value of engine power was written as a numeric word . All vehicles had a four-cylinder engine .

In 1909 the Model 25 had an engine with 25 hp. The wheelbase was 284 cm. Six -seat town car , four-seat runabout and four-seat baby tonneau have been handed down. In the Model 32 the engine developed 32 HP. The chassis had a 295 cm wheelbase. Runabout and Baby Tonneau corresponded to the smaller model. The third body variant was a five-seater touring car .

In 1910 the range comprised three models. The Thirty-Two corresponded to the previous year's model. The runabout was omitted. In the Forty-Five , the engine developed 45 hp. The wheelbase was 312 cm. There was a choice of five- and seven-seater touring cars and a four-seater runabout. The largest model, Sixty , had a 356 cm wheelbase and a touring car body that offered space for seven people. The engine developed 60 hp.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1909 Model 25 4th 25th 284 Town Car 6-seat, Runabout 4-seat, Baby Tonneau 4-seat
1909 Model 32 4th 32 295 Runabout 4-seater, Baby Tonneau 4-seater, touring car 5-seater
1910 Thirty-Two 4th 32 295 Baby Tonneau 4-seater, touring car 5-seater
1910 Forty-Five 4th 45 312 Runabout 4-seater, touring car 5-seater and 7-seater
1910 Sixty 4th 60 356 7-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. 346 (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. 320. (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 346 (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. 320. (English)