Euclid Motor Car Company (Ohio)

Euclid Motor Car Company
legal form	Company
founding	1907
resolution	1908
Seat	Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management	Herbert R. Palmer
Branch	Automobiles

Euclid Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles from Ohio .

Company history

Herbert R. Palmer had previously gained automotive experience with the Palmer Automobile Manufacturing Company . In 1907 he founded the company in Cleveland . Automobile production began at the end of 1907. The brand name was Euclid . Production ended after about a year in 1908.

There was no connection to the Euclid Motor Car Company of the same name from Connecticut or to the Berg Automobile Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

There were two different models on offer. Both had an air-cooled three - cylinder two-stroke engine made in-house. It drove the rear axle via a friction gear and two chains. The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm . The superstructures were open.

The engine in the roadster had 85.725 mm cylinder bore , 88.9 mm stroke , 1539 cc displacement and 20 hp . The touring car had a more powerful engine. 101.6 mm bore and 114.3 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 2780 cc and 35 hp.

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. 549-550 (English).
• George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 508 (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. 549-550 (English).
2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 508 (English).