Massnick-Phipps Manufacturing Company

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Massnick-Phipps Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1910 or earlier
resolution 1915 or later
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management
  • Frederick C. Massnick
  • Walter Phipps
Branch Engines

Massnick-Phipps Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of engines and automobiles .

Company history

Frederick C. Massnick and Walter Phipps ran the company. The seat was in Detroit , Michigan . The first known mention was in 1910. They mainly manufactured engines and enjoyed quite a reputation for this. Automobiles were also made between 1914 and 1915. The brand name was Perkins .

It is not known when the company was dissolved.

Products

The only passenger car model with its own brand name is called a cyclecar . However, it is unclear whether it met the criteria.

Vehicles were built for the Robie Motor Car Company . They were also called cycle cars, but exceeded their capacity limit. They had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 12 hp . 88.9 mm bore and 103.98252 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 1291 cc .

Four-cylinder and V8 engines were created for many customers. Are called Detroit Motors Company , Fischer Motor Vehicle Company , Flagler Cyclecar Company , Hall Motor Car Company , Keep Bros & Wood , teaching Motor Company , Pontiac chassis Company and Remington Motor Company .

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. 1171 (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. 1171 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 224 (English).
  3. ↑ Photo of the building, dated 1910 (English, accessed December 15, 2018)
  4. ↑ Photo of the interior of the building, dated 1910 (English, accessed December 15, 2018)