Holly Motor Company

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Holly Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1915
Seat Mount Holly , New Jersey , USA
Branch Automobiles

Holly Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1912 as the successor to the Ottomobile Company . The seat was in Mount Holly , New Jersey . Initially, a few other Otto mobiles were made. In 1913 the company began marketing automobiles under its own brand name Holly . Production ended in 1915.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. The Model A-Six had a six-cylinder engine . It was specified with 38 hp , but made 60 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 330 cm . Only the superstructures changed during the production time.

In 1913 there were open touring cars with five and seven seats. In 1914 another touring car with six seats and a roadster with two seats were added. In 1915 the six- and seven-seater were discontinued.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1913 Model A-Six 6th 38 330 5-seater and 7-seater touring cars
1914 Model A-Six 6th 38 330 5-seater, 6-seater and 7-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster
1915 Model A-Six 6th 38 330 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster

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. 710 (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. 708 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 710 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 708 (English).