Pittsburgh Motor Car Company

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Fort Pitt Motor Manufacturing Company
Pittsburgh Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1911
Seat Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA
management HS Schmitt
Number of employees 15-18
Branch Automobiles

Pittsburgh Motor Car Company , previously Fort Pitt Motor Manufacturing Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

BG von Rottweiler moved from Germany to the USA in 1905 and reached New Kensington , Pennsylvania in 1906 . He intended to make the world's best racing car . JA Sturtevant and William E. Ward, who ran a small mechanical workshop, helped him with this. The engine was completed, the vehicle was not.

At the end of 1907, Rottweiler founded the Fort Pitt Motor Manufacturing Company with financial help from HS Schmitt . Schmitt became President, Sturtevant Vice President, Ward Secretary, and Arthur J. Paige Superintendent and General Manager. Rottweiler's post is not mentioned. The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Pittsburgh , possibly with the addition of Six . Between 15 and 18 people were employed.

In 1908 Rottweiler left the company.

In December 1909, the leading General Engineering Company of Pittsburgh through a reorganization. The success remained low.

In April 1910 it became the Pittsburgh Motor Car Company . Plans to move to Braddock , Pennsylvania were not carried out. Production in New Kensington ended on July 1, 1910. In January 1911, two more vehicles were presented at an automobile show in New York City .

In February 1911 it was announced that the former Pittsburgh Steel Pulley Company's Pittsburgh plant would be acquired and the headquarters would be relocated there. Apparently some vehicles have been assembled there. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

Other manufacturers of passenger cars of the Pittsburgh brand were Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Company and Pittsburgh Machine Tool Company .

vehicles

Like all subsequent engines, the engine for the racing car was a six-cylinder engine . A 177.8 mm bore and 228.6 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 34,054 cm³ . The engine power should have been 200 hp .

The passenger car models had a bore of 120.65 mm, the stroke 133.35 mm and the displacement 9147 cm³.

In 1908 there was the 72 HP . The engine output was specified as 72 hp. The chassis had a 307 cm wheelbase . There was a choice of runabouts , rumble-seat runabouts, roadsters and touring cars .

In 1908 a two-seater Runabout Model A , a three-seater Roadster Model B , a four-seater Tourabout Model C and a seven-seater touring car Model D were named . The seven-seater had a wheelbase of 315 cm.

From 1910 the engine output was only given as 60 HP. Model B was a three-seater runabout with a 310 cm wheelbase, Model C was a five-seater touring car with a 315 cm wheelbase and Model D was a seven-seater touring car with a 340 cm wheelbase.

No model names and wheelbases have survived for 1911. A three-seat roadster and a seven-seat touring car are named.

Model overview

year model execution cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1908 72 HP 6th 72 307 Runabout, Rumble-Seat Runabout, Roadster, Touring Car
1909 72 HP Model A 6th 72 307 Runabout 2-seater
1909 72 HP Model B 6th 72 307 Roadster 3-seater
1909 72 HP Model C 6th 72 307 Tourabout 4-seater
1909 72 HP Model D 6th 72 315 7-seater touring car
1910 60 HP Model B 6th 60 310 3-seater runabout
1910 60 HP Model C 6th 60 315 5-seater touring car
1910 60 HP Model D 6th 60 340 7-seater touring car
1911 60 HP 6th 60 3-seater roadster, 7-seater touring car

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. 1196 (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. 1236 (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. 1196 (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. 1236 (English).