Hamilton Motors Company

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Hamilton Motors Company
legal form Company
founding 1917
resolution 1921
Seat Grand Haven , Michigan , USA
management Guy Hamilton
Branch Motor vehicles

Hamilton Motors Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Guy Hamilton ran the Alter Motor Car Company . After their bankruptcy , he founded the new company in Grand Haven , Michigan . He continued production. Passenger cars were only built in 1917 and were called Hamilton . Trucks were first marketed as Panhard and then as Apex . Their production ended in 1921.

Car

Only the A-14 model was on offer . It largely conformed to a model of age. The four-cylinder engine developed 28 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm . The only structure was an open touring car with five seats.

A model with a six-cylinder engine was announced but not completed.

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. 671 (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. 663 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 671 (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. 663 (English).
  3. ^ Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 11.