Ritz Cyclecar Company

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Ritz Cyclecar Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1915
Seat New York City , New York , USA
Branch Automobiles

Ritz Cyclecar Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1914 in Manhattan , New York City . Carl D. Ritzwoller, Solomon Satzauer and A. Russell Smith were involved as designers. In the same year the production of automobiles began, which took place at the Driggs Ordnance & Manufacturing Corporation . The brand name was Ritz . Some vehicles were exported to England . In early 1915, Ritz sued Driggs for missed deliveries, while Driggs claimed Ritz had failed to pay. In November 1916, a court ruled in Ritz's favor. By then the company had already been dissolved, because production ended in 1915. A total of 205 vehicles were built.

vehicles

On offer were small cars and not cycle cars , as the company name suggests.

The vehicles from 1914 had an air-cooled V2 engine . It was specified with 10/12 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The chassis had a wheelbase of 249 cm and a track width of 112 cm . The roadster offered space for two people side by side. The original price was 395 US dollars .

In 1915 a slightly larger model followed. It had a four-cylinder engine with water cooling . A 63.5 mm bore and 101.6 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 1287 cm³ and an output of 15 hp. The wheelbase was lengthened to 254 cm. The curb weight was about 500 kg and the new price was 425 dollars.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1914 10/12 HP 2 10/12 249 Roadster
1915 15 HP 4th 15th 254 Roadster

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. 1295-1296 (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. 1295-1296 (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).