Lorraine Car Company

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Lorraine Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1917
resolution 1921
Reason for dissolution Takeover by the Pilot Motor Car Company
Seat Richmond , Indiana , USA
management DH Cummings
Branch Motor vehicles

Lorraine Car Company was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

DH Cummings founded the company in 1917. The seat was in Richmond , Indiana . He made hearses . From 1920 passenger cars were also produced . The brand name was Lorraine . In 1921 it was taken over by the Pilot Motor Car Company .

The brand name was used until 1923. During this time, cars were only made after orders.

There were no affiliations with Lorraine Automobile Manufacturing Company and Lorraine Motors Corporation , which used the same brand name.

Car

The only model was the Six . It had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company with 55 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 310 cm . The vehicles were bodied as a sedan with seven seats.

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. 902 (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. 921 (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. 902 (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. 921 (English).