Hobbie Automobile Company

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Hobbie Automobile Company
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founding 1901
resolution 1939
Seat Hampton , Iowa , USA
Branch Automobiles

Hobbie Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Leslie Hobbie started the company around 1901 in Hampden , Iowa as a car dealership . Vehicles from Ford , Oldsmobile , Premier and Reo are mentioned . Between 1908 and 1910 he manufactured automobiles. The brand name was Hobbie , possibly also Hobbie Accessible or Accessible .

From 1910 Hobbie sold vehicles from Overland , from 1930 from Chrysler and 1939 from Crosley Motors . Then the track of the company is lost.

vehicles

Highwheelers were on offer . They had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine . It drove the rear axle via two chains. In addition, the vehicles had solid rubber tires and a steering lever instead of a steering wheel . The bodies were open.

The Model A existed from 1908 to 1909 . The engine was specified with 10/12 hp. The wheelbase was 208 cm. The structure was called the Road Wagon and had two seats. In addition, there was the Model B . The engine developed 14 hp . The chassis had a 224 cm wheelbase. The piano box buggy offered space for four people.

In 1910, the offer to the restricted model A . The engine output had been increased to 12/14 hp. The wheelbase remained unchanged. The runabout had two seats.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1908-1909 Model A 2 10/12 208 Road Wagon 2-seater
1908-1909 Model B 2 14th 224 Piano Box Buggy 4-seater
1910 Model A 2 12/14 208 Runabout 2-seater

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. 706 (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. 704 (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. 706 (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. 704 (English).