MH Carpenter

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Phianna Motors Company,
M.H. Carpenter
legal form Company
founding 1917
resolution 1922
Seat Long Island City , New York , USA
management Miles Harold Carpenter
Branch Automobiles

MH Carpenter , previously Phianna Motors Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Phianna Motors Company was founded in Newark , New Jersey in 1917 . John A. Bell, RJ Metzler and TM Pepperday were involved. They took over SGV Company from Reading , Pennsylvania . The production of automobiles began, marketed as Phianna .

Business was bad during the First World War . The Wright-Martin Aircraft Company took over the Newark facility.

Miles Harold Carpenter took over the company in 1919. He renamed it MH Carpenter and moved the headquarters to Long Island City , New York State . The first vehicles under his direction were presented at the New York Automobile Show in October 1919 . They were luxury cars for a small market. The post-war depression came along. Production ended in 1922.

A total of between 50 and 100 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The first vehicles had a four-cylinder engine with 25 hp . The chassis had a 293 cm wheelbase . The oval radiator grille was striking . The original price for the chassis was 3,600 US dollars . Body manufacturers produced the bodies according to customer requirements.

In 1919 the wheelbase was lengthened to 317.5 cm. Fred Charavey also designed a new radiator grille that resembled those of Rolls-Royce . The vehicles now cost about $ 6,000 for a Brougham , about 9,500 for a touring car, and about 11,500 for a sedan . It should be noted that it was still external bodies, which of course were more expensive than standard bodies. The buyers included the then King of Spain Alfonso XIII. and Bainbridge Colby .

In 1921 there were some prototypes with a larger six-cylinder engine and a 361 cm wheelbase.

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. 1174-1175 (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. 1221 (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. 1174-1175 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 1221 (English).