Rands Manufacturing Company

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Rands Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1904
resolution 1916
Reason for dissolution Merger
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management William C. Rands
Branch vehicles

Rands Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

William C. Rands founded the company in Detroit , Michigan in 1904 . He made bicycles and accessories for automobiles . In October 1906, for example, the company was present at the Chicago Automobile Show as an accessory exhibitor. In 1906 a car was created for his own use. In 1907 a small series production followed. The brand name was Rands . In the same year motor vehicle production was given up again.

In 1913 the remains of the Warren Motor Car Company were taken over.

On June 5, 1916, there was a merger with several other companies to form Motor Products Corporation .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had an air-cooled four-cylinder engine with 30 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 269 ​​cm . One illustration shows a 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. 1263 (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. 1297 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 1263 (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. 1297 (English).
  3. ↑ a b This is Detroit (accessed January 5, 2019)
  4. ↑ The Horseless Age of October 31, 1906 (accessed January 5, 2019)
  5. ↑ The City of Detroit (accessed January 5, 2019)