Ritter Automobile Company

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Ritter Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1912
resolution 1912
Seat Madison , Wisconsin , USA
management CH knight
Branch Automobiles

Ritter Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

CH Ritter sold vehicles from the Demot Car Company . When this company was dissolved, he took over the remains. He co-founded the new company in Madison , Wisconsin with RA Skinner and AW Voege . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Ritter . Production ended in the same year. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

There was no connection to the other manufacturer Ritter , who a few years earlier also offered vehicles as Ritter .

vehicles

The only model was larger and more powerfully motorized than the Demot . It had a four-cylinder engine with 82.55 mm bore , 85.725 mm stroke and 1835 cm³ displacement . The engine developed 15 hp . The chassis had a 229 cm wheelbase . The setup was a runabout . The original price was 685 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).