Pennsylvania Motor Car Company

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The Motors Company
Pennsy Motors Company
Pennsylvania Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1919
Seat Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA
management Elmore Gregg
Branch Motor vehicles

Pennsylvania Motor Car Company , previously The Motors Company and Pennsy Motors Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Pennsy Motors Company share dated July 27, 1916

Elmore Gregg was involved in the Penn Motor Car Company , which had to give up in 1912. He founded The Motors Company in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania in 1915 . He chose the neutral company name because he did not yet know a new brand name. In early 1916 it became the Pennsy Motors Company . In the summer of the same year, the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Pennsy . This name was determined in a competition and the lucky winner who suggested that name received the first vehicle manufactured. Edward T. Birdsall was the designer. Guy Sintz was superintendent of the plant.

Even in 1916 which was Kosmath Company of Detroit acquired the commercial vehicles produced. Many Kosmath employees then moved to Pittsburgh. Kosmath trucks continued to be produced until January 1917.

Bankruptcy began in February 1917 . In March 1917 Birdsall and his main draftsman left the company and moved to the Pullman Motor Car Company . In the same year Gregg carried out a reorganization. The new company name was Pennsylvania Motor Car Company . The vehicles were now occasionally called New Pennsylvania . Production ended in 1918. In January 1919 it was announced that the company had been dissolved.

vehicles

From 1916 to 1917, was only the Model R . It had a four cylinder engine that came from Lycoming or GB&S . The performance was specified with 30/35 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 290 cm . There was a choice of a touring car with five seats and a roadster with two seats.

In 1918 it became the Four . The four-cylinder engine was now specified with 35/40 hp. The wheelbase had been lengthened slightly to 292 cm. The body designs remained the same. In addition, the Six appeared in 1918 . It had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . It made 48 hp. The wheelbase was 302 cm. A roadster with four seats and a touring car with five seats are named.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916-1917 Model R 4th 30/35 290 5-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster
1918 Four 4th 35/40 292 Roadster 2-seater, touring car 5-seater
1918 Six 6th 48 302 Roadster 4-seater, touring car 5-seater

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. 1168-1169 (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. 1206 (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. 1168-1169 (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. 1206 (English).