Phipps-Grinnell Automobile Company

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Phipps-Grinnell Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1911
resolution 1911
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Phipps-Grinnell Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ira and CA Grinnell and Joel G. Phipps founded the company in 1911. The seat was in Detroit , Michigan . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Phipps-Grinnell .

The partners parted ways at the end of the year. The two Grinnells founded the Grinnell Electric Automobile Company and Phipps founded the Phipps Electric Company .

vehicles

Only electric cars were on offer .

Two models were passenger cars . Model C had a chassis with a 198 cm wheelbase and was bodied as a coupé . Model D had a 225 cm wheelbase. The structure was called the Extended Coupé .

There was also a delivery truck .

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. 1175-1176 (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. 1222 (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. 1175-1176 (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. 1222 (English).