Hydro-Car

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Hydro-Car was an American automobile brand.

Brand history

Thomas B. Jeffery and R. Phillip Gormully made bicycles in Chicago , Illinois , which they sold as Rambler . In 1900 you designed an automobile as a prototype . In the same year they sold their company to Albert Augustus Pope , who incorporated it into his American Bicycle Company .

The American Bicycle Company from Chicago brought the vehicle into series production in 1901. The brand name was Hydro-Car . Production ended in 1902.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a two-cylinder engine with 7 hp . It was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the rear axle.

The setup was an open runabout with space for two people. The left-hand drive was unusual . Was steered with a steering lever. The original price was 1,000 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. 760 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1294 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. 760 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1294 (English).