Heine Motor Car Company

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Heine Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1905
resolution 1907
Seat San Francisco , California , USA
management Gustav Otto Heine
Branch Automobiles

Heine Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The German-born Gustav Otto Heine operation in San Francisco in California , the Heine Piano Company for the production of pianos . In addition, from 1903 he ran a car dealership for Ford vehicles. In 1904 he announced that he wanted to manufacture automobiles himself. Initially, Cincinnati in Ohio was planned as the location and Victor Emerald as the designer. Heine changed his plans. He founded the Heine Motor Car Company in San Francisco in 1905 and designed the vehicles himself. The prototype was called Heine . In the series version, the brand name was Heine-Velox . Plans totaled 50 vehicles for 1906.

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed both this factory and the piano factory. This ended vehicle production. However, in February 1907, another vehicle was presented at the San Francisco Auto Show that must have been produced before the earthquake . After that, Heine gave up car manufacturing and concentrated on pianos.

In 1921, Heine founded the Heine-Velox Engineering Company and again manufactured vehicles with the same brand name.

vehicles

The Heine prototype was called the 40/45 HP . It had a four-cylinder engine and a touring car body . The original price should be $ 4000 . An 80/85 HP for $ 8,200 was also planned.

The production vehicles were 35/45 HP . The four-cylinder engine had a displacement of 5805 cm³ . It is possible that it was the same engine as in the prototype. The chassis had a wheelbase of 323 cm . At least three of these vehicles were built.

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. 694 (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. 682-683 (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. 694 (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. 682-683 (English).