Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Company

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Hupp-Yeats Electric Coach (1912)
RCH 25 HP

The Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Company was an American automobile manufacturer, which was based in Detroit from 1911 to 1919 . It was founded by Robert Craig Hupp as RCH Corporation and later renamed the Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Company. The company manufactured both electric cars under the name Hupp-Yeats and gasoline-powered automobiles under the name RCH .

In 1913, Hupp left the company. Until May 1914, electric vehicles were made from leftover parts. In July of the same year, a group of Detroit investors, led by JF Hartz , bought in and stopped manufacturing the RCH. The Hupp-Yeates was built unchanged until 1919. Robert Hupp died in 1917.

Hupp-Yeats

The Hupp-Yeats had Westinghouse Electric electric motors with five gears. There were open and closed models with four seats. They had a range of 120 to 145 km. All cars had solid rubber tires. A total of around 1000 vehicles were built.

model Construction period cylinder power wheelbase
Hupp-Yeats 1911-1919 2184-2540 mm

Today only a few of these cars have survived and most of them are in museums. James Keith Wilson from Victoria (British Columbia) bought one of these vehicles for his daughter Victoria. It is in today Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin (Alberta) ..

RCH

The RCH was a conventional, gasoline-powered car that was typical of its time. It had a side-controlled four-cylinder in-line engine that initially produced 22 bhp (16.2 kW) from 1752 cm³. As early as 1913, a larger four-cylinder with 2719 cm³ and 25 bhp (18.4 kW) was used. The vehicles were available as a two-seat roadster or runabout, a three-seat coupé and a five-seat touring car. A total of around 25,000 pieces were produced by 1915.

model Construction period cylinder Displacement power wheelbase
RCH 1912 4 row 1752 cc 22 bhp (16.2 kW) 2184 mm
RCH 1913-1915 4 row 2719 cc 25 bhp (18.4 kW) 2794 mm

literature

  • George Nick Georgano : The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to Present. 1968. (English)
  • Beverly Ray Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 . (English)
  • Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era: Essential Specifications of 4,000+ Gasoline Powered Passenger Cars, 1906-1915, with a Statistical and Historical Overview. Mcfarland & Co Inc. publishers, Jefferson NC (2013); ISBN 0-78647-136-0 ; ISBN 978-078647-136-2

Web links

Commons : Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Company  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo of a Hupp-Yeats (1912)
  2. ↑ a b c d Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era (2013), p. 113