Reeves Pulley Company

Reeves Pulley Company
legal form	Company
founding	1890
resolution	1912
Reason for dissolution	Buying up
Seat	Columbus , Indiana , USA
management	Milton Reeves
Branch	Automobiles , engines

Photo from the factory from around 1910

Reeves Pulley Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles and engines .

Company history

William F. Reeves founded the company in 1890 with his three sons Marshall, Milton and Girnie. The seat was established in Columbus , Indiana . Milton Reeves had developed a continuously variable transmission . He manufactured automobiles between 1896 and 1898. The brand name was Reeves . After that, production was limited to gearboxes and motors.

In 1905 the annual production of engines was around 500 units. That year, Alexander Y. Malcomson of Aerocar Motor Company ordered 500 engines. But he didn't take them all off. Then Reeves decided to start manufacturing vehicles again. Series vehicle production ended in 1910. Some special vehicles were made up to 1912.

In 1912 the Emerson-Brantingham Company bought the company.

Products

The first vehicle from 1896 was called the Motocycle . Despite the name, it had four wheels. The engine came from Sintz . A silencer to reduce noise and an artificial horse's head should help prevent horses from being frightened. Five vehicles followed in 1897. All had the continuously variable transmission and two chains for power transmission. Some had a Sintz engine, others a self-developed engine with air cooling .

Around 1900 Reeves made air-cooled four-cylinder engines. In addition to Aerocar, Chatham , Maplebay and Marion Motor Car Company were also customers .

From 1905, there were initially two vehicle models in the range. The four-cylinder model had cardan drive and the six-cylinder model had chain drive. One illustration shows an open touring car .

In 1907 a high wheeler called the Go-Buggy added to the range. It had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine . 101.6 mm bore and also 101.66 mm stroke resulted in 1647 cm³ displacement and 10 HP power. The engine drove the rear axle via two chains. The chassis had a wheelbase of 183 cm . The new price was 450 US dollars excluding the body. If the customer wanted a body, Reeves would assemble a body made by a local body manufacturer. Open four-seaters have been handed down.

In 1911 an eight-wheeled vehicle called the Octoauto was created . The basis was a chassis from Overland from 1910. It was presented to the public on the occasion of the Indianapolis 500 car race in 1911. The four-cylinder engine with 111.125 mm bore, 114.3 mm stroke and 4434 cm³ displacement was specified with 30.6 hp. The wheelbase was 457 cm and the total length 630 cm. The original price was given as $ 3,200. It is unclear whether there were buyers.

In 1912, the six-wheeler version followed . These cars had one front and two rear axles. One vehicle had the chassis of an Octo car with a front axle removed. A second vehicle was based on a chassis from the Stutz Motor Car Company of America . A four-cylinder engine with 120.65 mm bore, 139.7 mm stroke, 6388 cm³ displacement and 36.1 hp is mentioned. The touring cars offered space for five people. The cars cost up to $ 5,000. But there is no known sale. Ads state a Reeves Sexto-Octo Company .

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. 1273-1274 (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. 1305-1306 (English).

Web links

Commons : Reeves Pulley Company - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 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. 1273-1274 (English).
↑ ^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. 1305-1306 (English).
^ ^A ^b Dorothy A. Nicholson, Robert W. Smith: Reeves Pulley Company Collection 1896–1969 December 2007 (PDF; English, accessed January 12, 2019)

[Kimes-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 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. 1273-1274 (English).

[Beaulieu-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. 1305-1306 (English).

[Reeves_Pulley_Company_Collection-3] A ^b Dorothy A. Nicholson, Robert W. Smith: Reeves Pulley Company Collection 1896–1969 December 2007 (PDF; English, accessed January 12, 2019)