Lone Star Motor Truck and Tractor Association

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Lone Star Motor Truck and Tractor Association
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founding 1919
resolution 1922
Seat San Antonio , Texas , USA
Branch Automobiles

Lone Star

Lone Star Motor Truck and Tractor Association was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1919 in San Antonio , Texas . In the same year, automobile production began at the Piedmont Motor Car Company in Lynchburg , Virginia . The brand name was Lone Star . Later it had its own plant in San Antonio. Moreover emerged trucks and tractors . The vehicles were also exported to Mexico . Production ended in 1922.

vehicles

From 1919 to 1921 there were two passenger cars to choose from. The Beauty Four had a four-cylinder engine from Lycoming with 35 hp power. The chassis had a 295 cm wheelbase . The structure was an open touring car with five seats. The Beauty Six , on the other hand, had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company with an output of 57 hp. The wheelbase was slightly longer at 310 cm. This model was also bodied as a five-seater touring car.

The six-cylinder model was discontinued in 1922. The four-cylinder model was now called the Model 4-35 . The engine data, wheelbase and structure did not change.

Another source also mentions a limousine .

A pick-up was available with both the Lycoming four-cylinder engine and a six-cylinder engine from Herschell-Spillman .

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1919-1921 Beauty Four 4th 35 295 5-seater touring car
1919-1921 Beauty Six 6th 57 310 5-seater touring car
1922 Model 4-35 4th 35 295 5-seater 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. 899 (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. 919 (English).

Web links

Commons : Lone Star Motor Truck and Tractor Association  - 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. 899 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 9119 (English).