Holmes Motor Vehicle Company

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Holmes Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1907
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Cambridgeport , Massachusetts , USA
management Charles Holmes
Branch Automobiles

Holmes Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles Holmes ran the Charles Holmes Machine Company in Cambridgeport , Massachusetts in 1906 . He made automobiles that were marketed as Holmes .

Later in 1906 he continued production with the independent Holmes Motor Vehicle Company . Bankruptcy followed in the summer of 1907 . The amount outstanding totaled 571 dollars , less than the purchase price of a vehicle. The main creditor was the Charles Holmes Machine Company .

There were no affiliations with the other US manufacturers of Holmes automobiles: Holmes , Danville Foundry and Machine Company, and Holmes Automobile Company .

vehicles

The Model D had a water-cooled two - cylinder engine with 20 hp . A 127 mm bore and 127 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 3217 cc . The chassis had a wheelbase of 203 cm . The structure was an open runabout with two seats.

Model E , Model G and Model H had a four-cylinder engine with 101.6 mm bore, 101.6 mm stroke, 3295 cm³ displacement and 22 hp. The engines of the first and last mentioned vehicles were air-cooled . The Model E had the short wheelbase of 203 cm. For the other two models, it was 254 cm. All bodies were touring cars with five seats.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1906-1907 Model D 2 20th 203 Runabout 2-seater
1906-1907 Model E. 4th 22nd 203 5-seater touring car
1906-1907 Model G 4th 22nd 254 5-seater touring car
1906-1907 Model H 4th 22nd 254 5-seater touring car

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. 710-711 (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. 708-709 (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. 710-711 (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. 708-709 (English).