De Palma Manufacturing Company

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De Palma Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1916
resolution 1917
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management Frank P. Book
Branch Aircraft engines , automobiles

De Palma Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of aircraft engines and automobiles .

prehistory

The racing driver Ralph DePalma had already made two vehicles to customer orders in New York City in 1905 . They were called De Palma .

In 1911 he announced that he wanted to start a company to manufacture touring cars and roadsters to order. But nothing came of it. A vehicle may have been created.

Company history

In 1916 he founded the company in Detroit , Michigan, together with Frank P. Book . Frank Book became President, DePalma Vice President and HV Book Secretary and Treasurer. Now aircraft engines and racing cars were created . DePalma left the company in 1917. Then the track of the company is lost.

vehicles

In addition to racing cars, it was advertised that Speedsters would be made to customer specifications. Probably fewer than ten passenger cars were built .

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. 423 (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. ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 423 (English).