Ideal Electric Vehicle Company

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Ideal Electric Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
resolution 1912
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Ideal Electric Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1910 in Chicago , Illinois . John H. Ryerson was President, HH Peterson was Vice President, and Carl J. Holdredge was Secretary and Manager. They started producing automobiles in the same year. The brand name was Ideal , possibly with the addition of Electric . Plans totaled 500 vehicles. Ryerson committed suicide on May 16, 1910. Production ended in 1911.

Bruce Borland of the Borland-Grannis Company took over the company in 1912.

There were several US manufacturers of Ideal branded 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 and Bethlehem Motor Truck Company .

vehicles

Electric cars were on offer . They had chain drives. The chassis had a wheelbase of 234 cm . The construction was a brougham . The original price was 1,875 US dollars in the first year, thereafter dollars 2200th

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. 763 (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. 747 (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. 763 (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. 747 (English).