Consolidated Motor Car Company (Connecticut)

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Consolidated Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1919
resolution 1920
Seat Middlefield , Connecticut , USA
management
  • Albert E. Lazaro
  • Bert E. Lazaro
  • Frank J. Kenney
Branch Automobiles

Consolidated Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles from Connecticut .

Company history

The brothers Albert E. and Bert E. Lazaro and Frank J. Kenney founded the company in October 1919. The company was based in Middlefield . They started producing automobiles in 1920. The brand names were BEL , short for Bert E. Lazaro, and Sterling . Production ended in the same year.

A few years earlier there was a Consolidated Motor Car Company of the same name in Atlanta , Georgia .

vehicles

Brand name BEL

The only model had a self-made engine. The four-cylinder engine with OHV valve control was specified with 12.1 hp . The chassis had a 229 cm wheelbase . The vehicle was a sporty runabout .

Brand names sterling

A 28 hp four-cylinder engine from the LeRoi Company powered the vehicles. The wheelbase was 254 cm. The choice was between touring cars and roadsters .

Overview of car brands from the US, the Sterling include

brand Manufacturer Marketing start End of marketing Location, state
Ams sterling Amston Motor Car Company 1917 1918 Bridgeport, Connecticut
sterling Sterling Automobile & Engine Company 1901 1902 Sterling, Illinois
sterling Springfield Cornice Works 1901 1901 Springfield, Massachusetts
sterling Sterling Machine Works 1909 1909 Sterling, Illinois
sterling Elkhart Motor Car Company 1909 1911 Elkhart, Indiana
sterling Sterling Motor Car Company 1915 1916 Brockton, Massachusetts
sterling Consolidated Motor Car Company (Connecticut) 1920 1920 Middlefield, Connecticut
Sterling Knight Sterling Knight Company 1920 1926 Warren, Ohio
Sterling New York Sterling Automobile Manufacturing Company 1915 1916 New York City, New York

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. 113 and p. 1397 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1510. (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. 113 and p. 1397 (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. 1510. (English)