Ideal Auto Company
| Ideal Auto Company | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company |
| founding | 1910 |
| resolution | 1916 |
| Seat | Fort Wayne , Allen County , Indiana ( USA ) |
| Branch | Commercial vehicle manufacturer |
The Ideal Auto Company was an American commercial vehicle manufacturer . Brand name was ideal . There is no known direct reference to other motor vehicle manufacturers using the same brand name.
The company was based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
There was only one Ideal commercial vehicle manufacturer in the United States, but several manufacturers of passenger vehicles: Ideal Automobile Manufacturing Company , Richmond & Holmes Company , B. & P. Company, Ideal Motor Vehicle Company , Ideal Runabout Manufacturing Company , Bethlehem Automobile Company , Ideal Electric Vehicle Company , Ideal Shop . The commercial vehicle manufacturer Bethlehem Motor Truck Company also used the brand name for passenger cars.
vehicles
From 1910 the company offered a delivery van with a payload of 0.25 shillings. tn. (225 kg) and a light truck with 1 sh. tn. (approx. 0.9 t ). The vehicles had a water-cooled two resp. Four-cylinder engine , two-speed planetary gear and one drive chain for each rear wheel. Solid rubber tires were used.
For 1911 a truck with a 1600 lb (approx. 725 kg) payload is recorded. The vehicle weighed 2000 lb (about 900 kg) and had a wheelbase of 100 inches (2540 mm). The engine was a two-cylinder four-stroke with 20 HP (usually a value calculated using the NACC formula ). The engine was with Schebler - or Marvel - carburetor and American Bosch - ignition available. The power was transmitted via a two-speed planetary gearbox, multi-plate clutch and drive chains. The engine was installed "under the driver's seat", which indicates a front control arm . The vehicle had wooden artillery wheels measuring 36 × 2.5 inches at the front and 36 × 3 inches at the rear with solid rubber tires. Ideally he built the steering gear himself and used a suspension with three-quarter elliptic leaf springs . A complete vehicle with factory superstructure cost from US $ 1200.
It seems that the forward control concept was extended to all Ideal trucks in the following year . Two-cylinder engines were no longer available. All chassis were as Express - Flatbed or Stake Trucks with loading bar to load security available.
In 1915, conventional gears replaced planetary gears. Front handlebars were available with 1 sh.tn (approx. 0.9 t), 1.5 sh.tn. (approx. 1.3 t) and 2.5 sh.tn. (approx. 2.3 t).
Depending on the source, production ended in 1915 or 1916.
Remarks
- ↑ The NACC ( National Automobile Chamber of Commerce ) was a manufacturing organization that worked out standards for motor vehicles early in the USA. The NACC rating was taken over from the predecessor organization ALAM and expanded to include twelve-cylinder models . The power is calculated: cylinder bore ² × number of cylinders; the result is divided by 2.5. SAE-PS was later developed from this formula , it is also the basis of the British tax-PS at that time. A conversion into kW is not possible.
literature
- GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI, 1979; ISBN 0-87341-024-6 .
- Albert Mroz: Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Trucks and Commercial Vehicles. Krause Publications, Iola WI, 1996; ISBN 978-0-87341-368-8 .