Fostoria Light Car Company

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Fostoria Light Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1916
Seat Fostoria , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

Fostoria Light Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Fostoria Light Car Company stock blank chain

Charles Ash, Ira Cadwallader, AO George and JH Jones founded the company in the summer of 1915. The seat was in Fostoria , Ohio . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Fostoria . In December 1915, the Storm Buggy Company was taken over and plans were made to manufacture at their facility. By September 1916, 293 vehicles had been produced. Problems with the quality of the supplied motors from Sterling created a bad reputation. The owners then decided to dissolve the company.

They started a fresh start as Seneca Motor Car Company and chose the LeRoi Company as their new engine supplier.

There was no association with the Fostoria Motor Car Company , which used the same brand name a few years earlier.

vehicles

A range of models was on offer. A four-cylinder engine with OHV valve control and 17 hp powered the vehicles. One source mentions a displacement of 2100 cm³ . Another gives 82.55 mm bore , 114.3 mm stroke and 2447 cm³ displacement. The chassis had a wheelbase of 274 cm . The Model B was a Roadster , Model C , a touring car , model F a coupe and Model F a Speedster .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1915-1916 Model B 4th 17th 274 Roadster
1915-1916 Model C 4th 17th 274 Touring car
1915-1916 Model F 4th 17th 274 Coupe
1915-1916 Model G 4th 17th 274 Speedster

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. 602 (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. 585 (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. 602 (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. 585 (English).