Read Motor Car Company

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Read Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1913
resolution 1914
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
Branch Automobiles

Read Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Joseph Beatty, Roy Herald and Ray J. Read founded the company in mid-1913. The seat was in Detroit , Michigan . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Read .

In December 1913 a believer , Albert Schneider , sued . He claimed Read owed him over $ 1,000 and was bankrupt. To what extent the allegations are correct is no longer understandable. Production ended in early 1914. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

Only the Model X was on offer . A four-cylinder engine with 88.9 mm bore , 101.6 mm stroke , 2523 cm³ displacement and 20 HP power propelled the vehicles. The chassis had a 292 cm wheelbase . The only superstructure offered was a touring car with five seats.

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. 1270 (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. 1304 (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. 1270 (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. 1304 (English).