Perfex Company

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Perfex Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1913
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat Los Angeles , California , USA
management Paul Brown Jr.
Branch Motor vehicles

Perfex Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Los Angeles , California in 1912 . Paul Brown Jr. was president. The designer James R. Fouch had already gained experience in automobile construction with the Morrow-Mercury Motor Car Company . They started producing automobiles in the same year. The brand name was Perfex . Twelve passenger cars were built in the first year . In July 1913, commercial vehicles added to the range. A little later, Brown announced the discontinuation of car production. Fouch then left the company and founded his own company Fouch for vehicle production.

Production ended in 1913. A total of around 125 vehicles were built. Mission , a local truck manufacturer, took over the company.

vehicles

All vehicles had a bought-in engine from GB&S . It was a four-cylinder engine with T-head , 95,25 mm bore , 114.3 mm stroke and 3258 cc engine capacity . Its power was given as 22.5 hp .

The car's chassis had a wheelbase of 269 ​​cm . It was bodied as a roadster with two seats.

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. 1171 (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. 1207 (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. 1171 (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. 1207 (English).