Overman Automobile Company

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Overman Wheel Company
Overman Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1882
resolution 1902
Reason for dissolution Merger
Seat Chicopee Falls , Massachusetts , USA
management Albert H. Overman
Branch vehicles

Hochrad from 1889

Overman Automobile Company , previously Overman Wheel Company , was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Albert H. Overman founded the Overman Wheel Company in Chicopee Falls , Massachusetts . In 1882 he exhibited bikes of the brand Victor ago. Between 1895 and 1898 three developed prototypes of automobiles , the Overman were called. Series production began in 1899. The brand name was Victor .

In 1900 the bicycle division was sold to J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company . Overman continued to assemble his automobiles in a rented part of the plant . In the summer of 1900 a reorganization led to the Overman Automobile Company . Around 50 vehicles had been sold by November 1901. In January 1902 the production of water pumps for Locomobile was added.

In October 1902 there was a merger with Locomobile. The factory equipment was relocated to Bridgeport , Connecticut . Production of the Victor ended in early 1903 .

Other American manufacturers of passenger cars of this brand were Victor Motor Car Company , Victor Motor Company and Richmond Cyclecar Manufacturing Company .

Motor vehicles

The first three passenger cars had gasoline engines . Harry A. Knox, who later headed Knox Automobile , was involved in the development .

The production vehicles were steam cars designed by James H. Bullard. They had a steam engine with two cylinders . The engine output of 4 hp was transmitted to the rear axle via a chain. The body offering included Runabout for $ 1,000 , Victoria for $ 1,085, and Surrey for $ 1,500.

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. 1500 (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. 1677 (English).

Web links

Commons : Overman Automobile Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 1500 (English).
  2. ↑ 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. 1677 (English).
  3. ^ William T. Davies: The New England States, their Constitutional, Judicial, Educational, Commercial, Professional, and Industrial History , Volume I Edition, DH Hurd & Co, Boston 1897, pp. 414-418 (Retrieved February 8 2016).