Independent Harvester Company

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Independent Harvester Company
legal form Company
founding 1904
resolution 1918
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Plano , Illinois , USA
Branch Vehicles , agricultural implements

Independent Harvester Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles and agricultural equipment.

Company history

The company was founded in 1904 in Plano , Illinois . It made implements for agriculture .

In April 1910, HK Holsman joined the company, who previously ran the Holsman Automobile Company . He transferred his patent rights to the company and became head of the vehicle department. Automobiles were made between 1910 and 1911. The brand name was officially Independent Harvester and unofficially IHC . Only the full name is used in a company advertisement for the vehicles. It should be noted that the competitor International Harvester officially offered very similar vehicles as IHC during the same period . One source suggests that Holsman deliberately intended a mix-up.

In 1918 bankruptcy proceedings took place. On April 24, 1918, the successor company Independent Harvester Company Ltd. founded in the state of Delaware .

vehicles

Highwheelers were on offer . They were based on a model by Holsman. One model had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine rated at 24 hp . The bodies were open. The original price was 750 US dollars .

A four-cylinder engine is also mentioned. It had 133.35 mm bore , 63.25 mm stroke , 3547 cm³ displacement and 42 hp. The wheelbase was 241 cm.

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. 767 (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. 748 (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. 767 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 748 (English).
  3. ↑ a b H. K. Holsman and the Independent Harvester Company (accessed May 12, 2018)
  4. ↑ a b advertisement (English, accessed on May 12, 2018)
  5. ↑ Open Corporates (accessed May 12, 2018)