Kleiber Motor Company

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Kleiber & Company
Kleiber Motor Truck Company
Kleiber Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1913
resolution 1938
Reason for dissolution Death of the owner
Seat San Francisco , California , USA
management Paul Kleiber
Branch Motor vehicles

Kleiber Motor Company , previously Kleiber & Company and Kleiber Motor Truck Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Paul Kleiber moved from Alsace-Lorraine to the USA in the 1890s . There he experimented with automobiles . At the beginning of the 20th century he sold commercial vehicles for the Gramm Motor Truck Company . In November 1913 he founded his own vehicle production company. This was Kleiber & Company , based in San Francisco , California . Starting in 1914, he manufactured commercial vehicles of the Kleiber brand .

In 1919 the company name changed to Kleiber Motor Truck Company . Between 1924 and 1929 he also manufactured passenger cars, which were also marketed as Kleiber .

In 1929 it became the Kleiber Motor Company . At the time there was a connection to the Studebaker Corporation . When Kleiber died in 1938, the company was dissolved.

vehicles

The trucks had a payload of between 0.5 and 10 tons .

The Six was only one model in the car range . A six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company with 60 hp propelled the vehicles. The chassis initially had a wheelbase of 325 cm and from 1927 a wheelbase of 310 cm. From 1924 to 1925 the choice of body was between a sporty touring car with five seats, a top California touring car with five seats, a coach with four seats and a limousine with five seats. 1926 Coupé with four seats and Brougham with five seats were added. From 1927 there was a standard touring car with five seats, California top touring cars with five and seven seats, a coupé with four seats, and a coach, brougham and limousine with five seats each.

For 1929, two copies of a are prototype with a series - eight-cylinder engine from Continental survived.

Car model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1924-1925 Six 6th 60 325 Sports Touring Car 5-seater, California Top Touring Car 5-seater, Coach 4-seater, Limousine 5-seater
1926 Six 6th 60 325 Sports Touring Car 5-seater, California Top Touring Car 5-seater, Coach 4-seater, Limousine 5-seater, Coupé 4-seater, Brougham 5-seater
1927 Six 6th 60 310 Standard touring car 5-seat, California Top touring car 5-seat and 7-seat, Coupé 4-seat, Coach 5-seat, Brougham 5-seat, Limousine 5-seat
1928-1929 Six 6th 60 310 Standard touring car 5-seat, California Top touring car 5-seat and 7-seat, Coupé 4-seat, Coach 5-seat, Brougham 5-seat, Limousine 5-seat

Car production figures

year Production number
1924 69
1925 186
1926 212
1927 178
1928 133
1929 37
total 815

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. 818 (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. 829 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 95.
  2. ↑ a b 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. 818 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 829 (English).