International Motor Car Company

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International Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1901
resolution 1903
Seat Toledo , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

Toledo steam car from 1901
Side view
Toledo steam car from 1902

International Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The American Bicycle Company announced the development of a motor vehicle in September 1900. In November 1900 the prototype was at the New York Automobile Show . It was named Billings after the designer Frederick Billings.

In early 1901, the American Bicycle Company decided to set up a separate manufacturing company and use their Toledo , Ohio facility . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was initially International and from the end of 1901 Toledo . Production ended in 1903.

The Pope Motor Car Company succeeded the company on May 27th.

There were no affiliations with the other US automakers under the International brand: International Motor Carriage Company , International Harvester, and International Automobile Company .

vehicles

International brand name

The models Toledo and Westchester were on offer . They were steam wagons . The superstructures were open runabouts with two seats.

Brand name Toledo

Steam cars continued to be a model series. The steam engine had two cylinders and developed 6.25 hp . The vehicles had chain drives. Was steered with a steering lever. In 1902 there was Model A as a runabout, Model B as a carriage , Model C as a Surrey , the Junior as a runabout and a touring car . In 1903 there was the Standard and Junior as a runabout, a Dos-à-Dos and a Model A without a known structure.

In model year 1902, a vehicle with a gasoline engine appeared for the first time . It had a three-cylinder engine with 16 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 213 cm . The open touring car offered space for five people. 50 of these were made. In 1903 there were three models to choose from. The weakest had a two-cylinder engine with 12 hp and 193 cm wheelbase. The middle one corresponded to the previous year's model, apart from an increase in output to 18 hp. The top model had a three-cylinder engine with 24 hp and a wheelbase of 239 cm. All of them were bodied as touring cars.

Model overview

year brand model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1901 International Toledo Runabout
1901 International Westchester Runabout
1902 Toledo Steamer 2 6.25 Runabout, Carriage, Surrey, Touring Cars
1902 Toledo Gasoline 3 16 213 5-seater touring car
1903 Toledo Steamer Runabout, dos-à-dos
1903 Toledo Gasoline 2 12 193 Touring car
1903 Toledo Gasoline 3 18th 213 Touring car
1903 Toledo Gasoline 3 24 239 Touring car

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. 770 (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. 1595 (English).

Web links

Commons : International Motor Car Company  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

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. 770 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 1595 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e 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. 1472 (English).