Paramount Motors Corporation

Paramount Motors Corporation
legal form	Corporation
founding	1923
resolution	1924
Seat	Los Angeles , California , USA
management	Fred S. Lack
Branch	Automobiles

Paramount Motors Corporation was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Fred S. Lack was from Phoenix , Arizona . He founded the company in early 1923. The seat was in Los Angeles , California . Murray C. Tunison was the designer. They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Paramount . In October 1923, production was relocated to Azusa , California. A new $ 1 million factory has been announced. In July 1924, the construction costs were given as 7.5 million dollars. However, the new plant was never built. Production ended in the same year. A total of at least three vehicles were built.

There was no connection with the MP Moller Motor Car Company , which offered taxis under the same brand name.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had an air-cooled motorcycle engine . The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm . The structure was called the All-Weather Coupé . It was a coupe that could be quickly converted into an open vehicle. The original price was $ 750.

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. 1151 (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. 1193 (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. 1151 (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. 1193 (English).