Hall Automobile Company

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Hall Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1908
Seat San Francisco , California , USA
management
  • Elbert John Hall
  • Walter C. Morris
Branch Automobiles

Hall Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Elbert John Hall had gained experience in automobile construction from 1902. From 1905 he held a managerial position at the Occidental Motor Car Company in San José , California . Here he manufactured his first vehicle in 1907, which he called the Comet . The company closed in 1907.

Hall then moved to San Francisco . In the same year he founded the Hall Auto Repair Company as a car repair shop and, together with Walter C. Morris, the Hall Automobile Company . They made another six vehicles. The brand name remained Comet . Production ended in 1908. Then the track of the company is lost.

Hall produced two more vehicles in 1909 and 1910/11 on customer request. He also founded the Hall-Scott Motor Car Company to manufacture engines.

There was no association with the other American automakers with the same brand name: Continental Motors Corporation of Buffalo , Comet Cyclecar , Comet Automobile Company , General Developing Company , Comet Co., and Comet Motors .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. The in-house developed four-cylinder engine with OHV valve control developed 25 hp from a displacement of 3293 cm³ . The chassis had a wheelbase of 259 cm . The vehicles were bodied as open two-seater roadsters with a soft top. The manufacturer guaranteed a top speed of 120 km / h . The vehicles were very fast for their time. In August 1908 they won seven out of eight races in Santa Rosa in which they were used.

The one-off from 1909 had a six-cylinder engine .

The last vehicle was powered by a V8 engine . George W. Scott was the client.

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. 365 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 326. (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. 365 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 326. (English)