Ritter (automobile manufacturer)

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Knight
legal form
founding 1896
resolution 1901
Seat Milton , Pennsylvania , USA
management Edward E. Ritter
Branch Automobiles

Ritter was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Edward E. Ritter lived from 1863 to 1924. In the 1890s he ran a bicycle dealership in Milton , Pennsylvania . In 1896 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Ritter . A blacksmith from the same town helped make the vehicle frames. Vehicle production ended in 1901. In total, only a few vehicles were built. Ritter later ran a dealership for Jackson .

There was no association with the Ritter Automobile Company , which used the same brand name.

vehicles

One vehicle was a steam car . A friction motor of our own manufacture has come down to us for another car .

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).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 243 (English).