Mount Pleasant Motor Company

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Mount Pleasant Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1915
Seat Mount Pleasant , Michigan , USA
management Louis J. Lampke
Branch Automobiles

Mount Pleasant Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Louis J. Lampke was from New Jersey . He developed an automobile. He couldn't find enough donors on the east coast of the United States . He moved to Mount Pleasant , Michigan . There he founded the company in 1915 with some business people. The share capital was low 5000 US dollars . The prototype was still called Mount Pleasant . In the same year, the series production of automobiles began. The brand name was MPM . This abbreviation was chosen after the company offered a $ 5 price for a short and catchy name. It was short for Mount Pleasant Michigan. By the end of the spring ten vehicles had been completed and sold. Then the money ran out. Lampke asked for a $ 10,000 increase. That was refused. Plans to move to Saginaw could no longer be implemented. Production ended. It stayed with the ten vehicles.

Lampke then founded the Saginaw Motor Car Company in Saginaw.

vehicles

The smaller model had a four-cylinder engine . The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm . The structure was a roadster with three seats. The original price was $ 1,085.

There was also a model with a V8 engine . It was specified with 44 hp . The wheelbase was slightly longer at an inch (2.54 cm). The open touring car offered space for five people. The price was $ 1,095, so it was hardly more expensive than the other model.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1915 Four 4th 284 Roadster 3-seater
1915 Eight 8th 44 287 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. 1008 (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. 1085 (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. 1008 (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. 1085 (English).