De Motte Motor Car Company
De Motte Motor Car Company | |
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 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): p. 421 (English).