Ripper Motor Carriage Company

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Ripper Motor Carriage Company
legal form Company
founding 1903
resolution 1903
Seat Buffalo , New York , USA
management Victor E. Ripper
Branch Automobiles

Ripper Motor Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was based in Buffalo , New York, United States . Victor E. Ripper ran it, who also ran three other stores selling bicycles and automobiles from other manufacturers. He presented his own vehicles at the Buffalo Automobile Show in March 1903 . The brand name was Ripper . The vehicles were advertised during the summer of 1903. Production apparently stopped before the end of the year. In the fall of 1904, Ripper disappeared with heavy debts.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a single cylinder engine with 5 hp . It drove the rear axle via a chain. The chassis had a 163 cm wheelbase. The structure was a small runabout with space for two people. Was steered with a steering lever. The original price was 575 US dollars .

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. 1295 (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. 1340 (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. 1295 (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. 1340 (English).