Hodgetts (automobile manufacturer)

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Hodgetts
legal form
founding 1908
resolution 1908
Seat Wallingford , Connecticut , USA
management ER Hodgetts
Branch Automobiles

Hodgetts was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

ER Hodgetts had gained experience in the construction of steam cars at Locomobile . He made five automobiles in Wallingford , Connecticut , in 1908 . He sold four of them. The brand name was Hodgetts .

In addition, together with his father WJ Hodgetts, he ran the only automobile workshop that existed in the city in 1908.

vehicles

Three vehicles were steam cars. The other two had gasoline engines .

The last vehicle was intended for personal use. It had a four-cylinder engine with 40 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via two chains. The chassis had a 305 cm wheelbase . The open touring car offered space for seven people.

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).

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. 706 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 144 (English).