Glover (vehicle manufacturer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glover
legal form
founding 1902
resolution 1911
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
management George T. Glover
Branch Motor vehicles

Glover was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

George T. Glover headed the Chicago , Illinois-based company . In 1902 he made some passenger cars. The brand name was Glover . Tractors followed a little later . In 1903 Russell Alexander Alger bought one of these tractors. In 1911 buses and trucks were added. Then the track of the company is lost.

There was no connection with the Glover Motor Company , which a few years later also marketed vehicles as Glover.

vehicles

Steam cars were on offer . The 1902 cars were available as two-seaters for $ 750 and four-seaters for $ 1200. The bodies were open. An unusual feature was an additional hollow wheel in the center of the vehicle that could be filled with hot water and was used to melt snow. The company hoped that this would benefit itself under winter conditions.

The tractors also had this wheel.

The commercial vehicles from 1911 were converted carriages on which a motorized fifth wheel was mounted.

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. 643 (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. 643 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 128 (English).