Lehr Motor Company

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Lehr Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1916
resolution 1916
Seat Maine , USA
management William M. Guider
Branch Automobiles

Lehr Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1916 in the US state of Maine . The plant, however, was located in Saginaw , Michigan . William M. Guider as President, Alfred F. Myer as Vice President, and Cury M. Schwahn as Secretary and Treasurer were all from Saginaw. Harry MacKaye previously worked as an engineer and general manager in Cleveland , Ohio . They started producing automobiles in the same year. The brand name was Saginaw . Production ended in 1916. In total, only a few vehicles were built. The company was dissolved on October 24, 1916.

There was no connection with Valley Boat & Engine Company , which two years earlier used the same brand name for passenger cars.

vehicles

One model was the eight . It had a V8 engine from the Massnick-Phipps Manufacturing Company . The original price was $ 1050 .

In addition, two copies of a model with a four-cylinder engine were created .

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. 1318 (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. 1405 (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. 1318 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 1405 (English).