Regas Automobile Company

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Regas Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1903
resolution 1906
Seat Rochester , New York , USA
management DD Dunn
Branch Automobiles

Regas Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Frederick Sager had been running the Regas Vehicle Company in Rochester , New York, from around 1900 . He had made frames for bicycles and some motorcycles .

In the summer of 1903 he dissolved the first company and founded the Regas Automobile Company in the same city . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Regas , backwards for Sager. In January 1904 he presented five vehicles at the National Automobile Show in New York City . Financial problems arose.

In the summer of 1904, DD Dunn took over the company. He hired William H. Birdsall as a designer. Production ended in 1905. In 1906 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

The first model from 1903 had a single cylinder engine with 7 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 183 cm . The setup was a runabout . The original price was 750 US dollars .

In 1904 a model appeared with a V2 engine producing 12 hp. The wheelbase was 206 cm. Runabouts and touring cars have survived and cost $ 1,500. There was also a car with a V4 engine and 20 hp. Its wheelbase was 218 cm. The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a cardan shaft .

Birdsall designed for the model year a larger model 1905th It had a four-cylinder engine, a three-speed gearbox and a chassis with a 254 cm wheelbase.

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. 1275-1276 (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. 1307 (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. 1275-1276 (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. 1307 (English).