Derain Motor Company

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Simplex Manufacturing Company
Derain Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1911
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management Earl H. Sherbondy
Branch Automobiles

Derain Motor Company , previously Simplex Manufacturing Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Earl H. Sherbondy was a young engine engineer. In 1908 he founded the Simplex Manufacturing Company in Cleveland , Ohio . Apart from a touring car , which he presented at a local automobile exhibition, he initially limited himself to the production of engines and power transmissions. In August 1909 he announced the production of 25 automobiles. The brand name was Derain .

In 1910 the name was changed to Derain Motor Company . Production was still running at the end of 1910. In 1911 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

Sherbondy was a fan of the two-stroke engine . The prototype from 1908 had a four-cylinder engine with 38 hp . The wheelbase was 284 cm.

In the standard version, the engine output was reduced to 30 hp. The chassis now had a 319 cm wheelbase. A seven-seater touring car body was mounted on it. The original price was 4,000 US dollars . The engine was praised in a contemporary test report. It would have the same torque as an eight - cylinder four-stroke engine and would run very smoothly.

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. 428-429 (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. ↑ a b 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. 428-429 (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. 423. (English)