Pontiac Chassis Company

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Pontiac Chassis Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1916
Seat Pontiac , Michigan , USA
management RA Palmer
Branch Automobiles

Pontiac Chassis Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

RA Palmer, who was previously Sales Director at the Cartercar Company , and HH Brooks founded the company in early 1915. The seat was in Pontiac , Michigan . A little later they bought the factory of the dissolved Flanders Manufacturing Company . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Pontiac .

In September 1915, Brooks left the company and took care of the Herff-Brooks Corporation . About a year later, Palmer founded the Olympian Motors Company and incorporated the Pontiac Chassis Company into the new company. Production ended in 1916.

Other car brands called Pontiac came from the Pontiac Spring & Wagon Works and Pontiac , which belonged to General Motors .

vehicles

The vehicles had a four-cylinder engine from the Massnick-Phipps Manufacturing Company . It was specified with 25 hp and powered the rear axle via a three-speed gearbox.

The chassis had a wheelbase of 269 ​​cm . The customers had to have the bodies made by a body manufacturer of their choice.

Two sources indicate that chassis were probably made for the Duryea Tricycle Company . However, the Detroit Chassis Company is also named for this.

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. 1217 (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. 1245 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 1217 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 1245 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 444 (English).