Koeb-Thompson Motor Company

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Koeb-Thompson Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1910
resolution 1910
Seat Leipsic , Ohio , USA
Branch Automobiles

Koeb-Thompson Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Emil Koeb and Ralph P. Thompson had experimented with automobiles as early as 1902. In 1910, in collaboration with the American Foundry Company, a passenger car was created that was tested and found to be good. The company was then founded in that city with financial help from the American Foundry Company and other business people from Leipsic , Ohio . The production of automobiles began, but ended that same year. The brand name was Koeb-Thompson . In total, only a few vehicles were built.

A Koeb-Thompson Lever Spring Company has survived for 1916 .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a four - cylinder two-stroke engine . The structure was a touring car with five seats. The specialty was the self-developed rear suspension.

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. 828 (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. 832-833 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 828 (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. 832-833 (English).