Robie Motor Car Company

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Robie Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding around 1913
resolution 1914
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
management Fred G. Robie
Branch Automobiles

Robie Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Fred G. Robie founded the company in Chicago , Illinois , around 1913 . He had developed a vehicle. In January 1914 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Robie . Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

The first model was created at the Massnick-Phipps Manufacturing Company . Although it was called a cycle car, it did not meet the criteria. The air-cooled two-cylinder engine had 88.9 mm bore , 103.98252 mm stroke and 1291 cm³ displacement . The capacity limit for cycle cars was 1100 cm³. The engine was specified with 12/15 hp and made 12 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 274 cm and a track width of 91 cm . The open structure of the roadster offered space for two people in a row. The curb weight was about 245 kg. The original price was 450 US dollars .

A new model was planned for the summer of 1914. The Pullman Motor Car Company was supposed to make the vehicles. As far as is known, the plans failed. This car had a four-cylinder engine with water cooling . A bore of 69.85 mm and a stroke of 101.6 mm resulted in a displacement of 1557 cm³ and an output of 12 hp. The wheelbase had been shortened to 259 cm, but the track width was widened to 112 cm. The two seats of the roadster were now slightly offset next to each other. The curb weight was given as around 500 kg.

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. 1301 (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. 1343 (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. 1301 (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. 1343 (English).