Hoover (automobile manufacturer)

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Hoover
legal form
founding 1913
resolution 1914
Seat St. Louis , Missouri , USA
management HH Hoover
Branch Automobiles

Hoover was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

HH Hoover lived in St. Louis , Missouri . He designed a vehicle in October 1913. He announced the series production. The brand name was Hoover . Production ended in 1914. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

The only model is called a cyclecar . It had an air-cooled single cylinder engine with 5 hp . The cubic capacity has not been handed down, but there are many indications that it was below 1100 cm³ and thus fulfilled the criterion for cycle cars. The engine power was transmitted via a chain.

The chassis had a wheelbase of 213 cm and a track width of 91 cm . Construction was an open roadster with two seats in a row. The curb weight was given as 159 kg. The wheels were wire spoke wheels.

The original price was 375 US dollars .

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. 716 (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. 715 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 716 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 715 (English).