Phipps Electric Company

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Phipps Electric Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1912
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management Joel G. Phipps
Branch Automobiles

Phipps Electric Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Joel G. Phipps had already gained experience in automobile construction with the Phipps-Grinnell Automobile Company . After its dissolution, he founded his own company in Detroit , Michigan in 1912 . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Phipps , possibly with the addition of Electric . Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

Electric cars were on offer . The chassis had a wheelbase of 272 cm and was therefore much longer than the Phipps-Grinnell models. The construction was a brougham .

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).
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 226 (English).