Fremont Motors Corporation

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Fremont Motors Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1919
resolution 1924
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Fremont , Ohio , USA
management RT Walsh
Branch Automobiles

Fremont Motors Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Fremont , Ohio in September 1919 . Sales manager was Fred M. Guy, who had gained experience with the Hackett Motor Car Company and had designed an engine for the Apex Motor Corporation . CW Whitmore, who previously worked for Packard , held shares. They acquired the Taylor Motor Truck Company factory . Production, which was mainly intended for export , should start after just 60 days . Production was announced again in April 1920. At the time, RT was President Walsh, who previously served as an advertising manager for King Motor Car Company . Production began in 1920 and also included commercial vehicles . The brand name was Fremont . In the summer of 1922, the All American Truck Company was taken over. Production ended in the same year. In total, only a few vehicles were built. In November 1924 the bankruptcy followed .

Passenger cars

Only the R-6 model was on offer . It had a six-cylinder engine of the Falls Motor Corporation with 3205 cc capacity and 37 PS output. The chassis had a 295 cm wheelbase . The structure was a touring car with five seats. The original price was initially 1685 US dollars and was lowered to 1450 dollars in 1922.

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. 614 (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. 593 (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. 614 (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. 593 (English).