Hammer Motor Company

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Hammer Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1905
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management Henry F. Hammer
Branch Automobiles

Hammer Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Henry F. Hammer was a co-owner of the Hammer-Sommer Auto Carriage Company until 1904 . After its dissolution, he founded the company in Detroit , Michigan in 1905 . Investors were Foster W. Allen, Harry W. Nichols and Leon J. Paszski. They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Hammer . Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. Compared to the previous vehicles from Hammer-Sommer, it was much larger, more powerfully motorized and accordingly more expensive. A four-cylinder engine with 24 hp was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the rear axle. The chassis had a wheelbase of 254 cm . The only known structure was an open touring car with five seats.

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. 672-673 (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. 672-673 (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).