Hamlin Motor Company

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Hamlin-Holmes Motor Company
Hamlin Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1919
resolution 1930
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
management FB Hamlin
Branch Automobiles

Hamlin Motor Company , previously Hamlin-Holmes Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Chicago FB Hamlin was a financier and ER Holmes engineer. They founded the Hamlin-Holmes Motor Company in 1919 . In the same year they built a vehicle in Denver , Colorado . Then they moved on to Detroit , Michigan . Then they settled in Chicago, Illinois in 1920 . The plant was located in nearby Harvey . The partners produced some automobiles there. The brand name was initially Hamlin-Holmes .

Holmes left the company at some point. The brand name was changed to Hamlin in 1930 . Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

The company relied on vehicles with front-wheel drive . The first model had a four-cylinder engine from Lycoming . The chassis had a wheelbase of 290 cm . Construction was an open touring car . A source sees a similarity to the Model T Ford .

In 1926 a racing car was used in the Indianapolis 500 auto race. The chassis and engine were from Ford . In the qualification, place 25 out of 28 participants was achieved. In the race, the end came after lap 23.

Other passenger cars had bodies bought in from Cleveland and Moon .

The last vehicle resembled a Graham . It was a four-door sedan .

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. 672 (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. 664 (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. 672 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 664 (English).