Cole California Car Company

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California Car Company
Cole California Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1911
resolution 1914
Seat Fruitvale , California , USA
management Walter G. Sachs
Branch Automobiles

Cole California Car Company , previously California Car Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The California Car Company was founded in Fruitvale in 1911 . It's a suburb of Oakland , California . Walter G. Sachs was President while Andrew J. Schram was Vice President, General Manager and Design Engineer. In the same year the production of automobiles began. California was initially planned as the brand name , but it was recognized in time that the California Automobile Company was already marketing vehicles under this name. Thereupon Pacific Special selected.

Schram left the company in 1913, which then founded the Schram Motor Car Company . Frederick Cole, who previously sold Cole Motor Car Company vehicles in San Francisco , took over his position. The company was renamed the Cole California Car Company . Sachs remained president. It is unclear whether vehicles were manufactured at all after this period.

Production ended in 1913. In 1914 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

The models up to 1913 had a four-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . 114.3 mm bore and 127 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 5212 cc . The engine was specified with 32.4 hp . The chassis had a 307 cm wheelbase . The structure was a touring car with five seats. The original price was 1750 US dollars .

Under Cole there were plans for a cheaper four-cylinder model and / or a more expensive model with a six-cylinder engine .

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. 1104 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1169 (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. 1104 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1169 (English).