Mino Cyclecar Company

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Mino Cyclecar Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1914
Seat New Orleans , Louisiana , USA
Branch Automobiles

Mino Cyclecar Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source gives the name New Orleans Cyclecar Company .

Company history

WS Campbell, IT Rhea and Julius C. Weiner founded the company in early 1914. The seat was in New Orleans , Louisiana . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Mino , although the name New Orleans was initially planned. Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

There was probably only one model on offer, for which there are different details. It was called a cycle car, but it remains unclear whether it met the criteria. One source calls an air-cooled two-cylinder engine . A second source confirms this and specifies the V2 engine . A third source mentions a four-cylinder engine with 63.5 mm bore , 101.6 mm stroke , 1287 cm³ displacement and 10 hp . The power was transmitted via a two-speed planetary gear and belt. The chassis had a wheelbase of 244 cm and a track width of 107 cm . The curb weight was about 204 kg. One source says it was a single seater. The long wheelbase speaks against it. Another source suggests that the vehicle had two seats in a row.

The original price was originally 375 US dollars . In the production version, the vehicle cost 465 dollars.

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. 978 (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. 1043 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 1043 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 199 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 978 (English).