De Motte Motor Car Company

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De Motte Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1904
resolution 1904
Seat Valley Forge , Pennsylvania , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

De Motte Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The company was founded in Valley Forge , Pennsylvania in 1904 . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was De Motte . The company set great store by simplifying production, but offered a large range for this purpose. Production ended in 1904.

vehicles

All vehicles had chain drives and steering wheels. The basis for the passenger car was a chassis with a 229 cm wheelbase . A small model had a two-cylinder engine with 10 hp . The open runabout offered space for two people.

There was also a more powerful model with a four-cylinder engine . With 20 hp it performed twice as much. A five-seater touring car or tonneau and a four-seater Surrey were available, each with a fixed roof.

Trucks , delivery vans and buses had an even more powerful engine. Their chassis hardly differed from those of the car models.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1904 10 HP 2 10 229 Runabout 2-seater
1904 20 HP 4th 20th 229 Touring car 5-seater, Surrey 4-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. 428 (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. 421 (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. 428 (English).
  2. ^ George Nick Georgano (editor-in-chief): p. 421 (English).