Cotta Automobile Company

Cotta Automobile Company
legal form	Company
founding	1903
resolution	1903
Seat	Rockford , Illinois , USA
management	Charles E. Cotta
Branch	Automobiles

Cotta Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

prehistory

Charles E. Cotta manufactured a steam truck in his father's company in Lanark , Illinois in 1901 . In 1902 four more vehicles were built in collaboration with the Love Manufacturing Company from Rockford , Illinois.

Company history

Cotta started his own business in Rockford in January 1903. This is where the series production of automobiles began. The brand name was Cotta . The first vehicle was completed in the first month. Ten more vehicles were planned for the rest of the year. In November of the same year Cotta sold the patents to the Four Wheel Drive Wagon Company . Production ended with that. A total of between 6 and 16 vehicles were built.

vehicles

They were steam cars. The steam engine had two cylinders and developed 6 hp . It was mounted as a mid-engine in the middle of the vehicle and powered both the front and rear wheels via chains. In addition, all four wheels were steered. All-wheel drive and all-wheel steering were completely unusual back then.

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. 382 (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. 339. (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. 382 (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. 339. (English)