De Mars Electric Vehicle Company

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De Mars Electric Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1904
resolution 1906
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management William O. De Mars
Branch Automobiles

De Mars Electric Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

William O. De Mars experimented on motor vehicles since 1902 . In December 1904 he founded the company in Cleveland , Ohio . John R. Blakeslee and his son CJ Blakeslee also worked for the company. They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was De Mars .

In February 1906, CJ Blakeslee took over the company along with other people and made it the Blakeslee Electric Automobile Company .

vehicles

Electric cars were on offer . An electric motor with 1.5 PS power drove the rear axle via one or two chains. The chassis had a wheelbase of 180 cm . The only body style offered was a two-seat Victoria .

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. 427 (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. 420 (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. 427 (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. 420 (English).