De Soto Motor Car Company

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De Soto Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1914
Seat Auburn , Indiana , USA
Branch Automobiles

De Soto Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

HJ Clark, LM Field, Glenn Fry, Hayes Fry, and VH Van Sickle founded the company in Auburn , Indiana in November 1912 . It belonged to the Zimmerman Manufacturing Company from the same town. The production of automobiles began, which were marketed as De Soto . Plans to relocate production to another plant in Fort Wayne were no longer implemented. Production ended late in 1914. John Zimmerman, who ran the Zimmerman Manufacturing Company alone, decided that vehicle production should only continue under the Zimmerman name.

There was no connection to the long-term car brand DeSoto of Chrysler .

vehicles

The first model in 1913 was the Six . It had a six-cylinder engine with 55 hp . The wheelbase was 330 cm. The only structure was a five-seater touring car . In the following year, the wheelbase was extended to 335 cm. This was followed by superstructures as five- and seven-seat touring cars and two- and four-seat roadsters .

A second model appeared in 1914. Although it was called a cycle car, it did not meet the criteria. A V2 engine with 88.9 mm bore , 93.2 mm stroke and 1157 cm³ displacement developed 10 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm. The open body of the roadster offered space for two people in a row. The curb weight was given as 249 kg.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1913 Six 6th 55 330 5-seater touring car
1914 Six 6th 55 335 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars, 2-seater and 4-seater roadsters
1914 Cyclecar 2 10 254 Tandem roadster

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. 430-431 (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. 426 (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. 430-431 (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. 426 (English).