Columbian Electric Vehicle Company

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Columbia Electric Vehicle Company
Columbian Electric Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1917
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management CF Krueger
Branch Automobiles

Columbian Electric Vehicle Company , previously Columbia Electric Vehicle Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

CF Krueger founded the Columbia Electric Vehicle Company in February 1914 . The seat was in Detroit , Michigan . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was initially Columbia , possibly with the addition of Electric . In 1915 he changed the company name to Columbian Electric Vehicle Company and the brand name to Columbian or Columbian Electric to avoid confusion with the Columbia Automobile Company . Initially, sales prices were too low to make a profit. After a price increase, sales fell. At the end of 1917, Krueger decided to stop production and liquidate the company.

There were other US manufacturers of Columbia vehicles : Columbia Automobile Company , Columbia Engineering Works , Columbia Motors Company, and Columbia Carriage Company .

vehicles

Only electric cars were on offer . The performance of the electric motors has not been handed down. The chassis had a uniform 224 cm wheelbase .

From 1914 to 1915 there were superstructures as runabouts with two seats and as coupelettes with three seats.

In both 1916 and 1917, a four-seater Brougham represented the third body variant.

Model overview

year model Wheelbase (cm) construction
1914-1915 Electric 224 Runabout 2-seater, Coupelette 3-seater
1916 Electric 224 Runabout 2-seater, Brougham 4-seater, Coupelette 3-seater
1917 Electric 224 Runabout 2-seater, Brougham 4-seater, Coupelette 3-seater

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. 363 (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 , pp. 325-326. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 363 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 325-326. (English)