Gabriel Auto Company

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Gabriel Auto Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
resolution 1920
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Gabriel Auto Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source names the Gabriel Motor Truck Company for the period from 1913 to 1919 .

Company history

The company had its origins in the WH Gabriel Carriage & Wagon Company , founded in 1851 , which manufactured carriages . A separate company was founded in Cleveland , Ohio , in 1910 to manufacture automobiles . The production of passenger cars began. The brand name was Gabriel . Their production ended in 1912. Instead, commercial vehicles emerged , which turned out to be more profitable. Production only ended in 1920.

vehicles

The first passenger car was announced in March 1910. In the same month a vehicle was shown at the Cleveland Automobile Show . Series production started in April 1910. In July 1910, a vehicle successfully took part in the Cleveland News Reliability Run . The only production model had a four-cylinder engine . It had 107.95 mm bore , 114.3 mm stroke and 4184 cc displacement . The performance was specified with 25/30 hp . The chassis had a 305 cm wheelbase . The sales figures remained low.

The first truck is referred to as a one-ton truck in an American source. If it is the American Short ton , that's 907 kg. A German-language source names two, three and four-ton trucks. The vehicles had cardan drive .

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. 623 (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. 603 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 623 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 603 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 68.