Remington Motor Vehicle Company

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Remington Automobile & Motor Company
Remington Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1904
Seat Utica , New York , USA
Branch Automobiles

Remington Motor Vehicle Company , previously Remington Automobile & Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Philo E. Remington, grandson of the founder of Remington Arms , and Peter A. Stubbebein founded the Remington Automobile & Motor Company in 1900 . The seat was in Ilion in the US state New York . They moved into a plant in the same city and bought the equipment of the dissolved Quick Manufacturing Company . William A. Schmidt was the engine designer. In the same year the production of automobiles began, which were sold from October 30, 1900. The brand name was Remington . James S. Holmes became general manager. By the spring of 1901, only seven vehicles had been made. Then the company moved to Utica , also in New York. In November 1902, financial problems became known that led to bankruptcy a few weeks later .

The factory was auctioned on February 11, 1903. The buyers were John B. Wild and AJ Baechle. They reorganized the company as the Remington Motor Vehicle Company . In June 1903, they announced that ten vehicles were in the making.

In July 1904 everything was sold to the Black Diamond Automobile Company .

There was no connection with the Remington Motor Company and the Remington Automobile Company , which a few years later offered vehicles as Remington and Remington Darts , respectively .

vehicles

The first vehicles had a small four-cylinder engine , while many competitors relied on single-cylinder engines . They were available in strengths of 4 hp and 6 hp. There was a choice of open bodies with two and four seats. The new prices were between 750 and 1500 US dollars .

In 1901, the vehicles received single-cylinder engines with the same engine power as before. Some of the bodies were made by the Willoughby Company .

In 1902 a model was added with a two-cylinder engine that developed 10 hp.

From 1903 there was only the two-cylinder model. Two different chassis lengths with different bodies are mentioned. The shorter 193 cm wheelbase vehicle was a $ 850 runabout . There was also a $ 1,350 tonneau with a wheelbase of 213 cm.

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. 1278 (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. 1311 (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. 1278 (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. 1311 (English).