Four Traction Automobile Company

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Four Traction Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1913
Seat Mankato , Minnesota , USA
management Ernest Rosenberger
Branch Motor vehicles

Four Traction Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ernest Rosenberger designed 1907 in Mankato in Minnesota a passenger car with four-wheel drive . Together with three people, he produced five vehicles by early 1908. The brand name was Four Traction . Then he founded the company in the same town with financial help from AG Wasson and JW Schmitt. The vehicles were now referred to as Mankato and Kato , the latter name often being used for delivery vans . At the end of 1908, 25 vehicles were in production. Production ended in 1913. A total of around 12 cars and 30 trucks were built .

The Nevada Manufacturing Company did it all.

vehicles

The four-wheel drive of the vehicles was unusual. A two-cylinder , two-stroke engine from the Brennan Motor Manufacturing Company powered the vehicles. They had 127 mm bore , 139.7 mm stroke , 3539 cm³ displacement and 24 hp .

The car chassis had a wheelbase of 264 cm . Model B was a touring car with five seats.

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. 796 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 813 (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. 796 (English).
  2. George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 813 (English).