FS Motors Company

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FS Motors Company
legal form Company
founding 1911
resolution 1912
Seat Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA
Branch Automobiles

FS Motors Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

In Wisconsin , there was a well-respected steam engine factory called Corliss . The characters Filer and Stowell are named. In 1911 they founded a separate vehicle manufacturing company in Milwaukee , Wisconsin. To do this, they bought the automobile manufacturer Petrel Motor Car Company and the engine manufacturer Beaver Manufacturing Company and moved everything from their plants to their own plant. So began the production of passenger cars and trucks . The brand name was FS , also in the spelling FS 1912, production ended.

vehicles

The assortment was large and not efficient. All vehicles had different engines and different chassis . They had beaver engines and shaft drives .

The weakest vehicle had an engine with 12 hp . The wheelbase was 229 cm. Construction was a delivery truck .

One runabout had a 22 hp engine and 249 cm wheelbase and a larger runabout had a 30 hp engine and 292 cm wheelbase.

The most powerful model had an engine with 40 hp. The wheelbase was 300 cm. These vehicles were bodied as a torpedo .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1911-1912 12 HP 12 229 delivery trucks
1911-1912 22 HP 22nd 249 Runabout
1911-1912 30 HP 30th 292 Runabout
1911-1912 40 HP 40 300 torpedo

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. 620 (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. 596 (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. 620 (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. 596 (English).