Palmer Automobile Manufacturing Company

Palmer Automobile Manufacturing Company
legal form	Company
founding	1906
resolution	1906
Seat	Ashtabula , Ohio , USA
management	Herbert R. Palmer
Branch	Automobiles

Palmer Automobile Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Herbert R. Palmer founded the company in January 1906 in Ashtabula , Ohio . In March 1906, automobile production began at a plant in Cleveland , also in Ohio. The brand name was Palmer . 300 vehicles were planned in the first year. In August 1906 the company moved into a larger factory in Ashtabula. Production ended in 1906.

Palmer later founded the Euclid Motor Car Company .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It was a high wheeler . A special feature was the self-made single-cylinder engine . It had no valves . It is unclear whether it was a two-stroke engine . 114.3 mm bore and stroke each resulted in a displacement of 1173 cm³ . The engine output of 8 hp was transmitted to the rear axle via a four-speed planetary gearbox . The chassis had a wheelbase of 152 cm . The setup was an open runabout with space for two people. Was steered with a steering wheel .

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. 1147 (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. 1178 (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. 1147 (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. 1178 (English).