Rogers & Hanford Company

Rogers & Hanford Company
legal form	Company
founding	1899
resolution	1902
Seat	Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management	Frank Rogers George Hanford
Branch	Automobiles

Rogers & Hanford Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Frank Rogers and George Hanford lived in Cleveland , Ohio . There they manufactured their first vehicle in 1899. Then they founded the company. The market launch of their vehicles was not until 1901, however. The brand name was Rogers & Hanford . Production ended in 1902. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

The cars had a rotary engine with four cylinders . According to one source, they were the very first vehicles with a four-cylinder rotary engine . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a chain. There was a choice of a small runabout with a curb weight of around 318 kg and a four-seater Surrey with a curb weight of around 635 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. 1306 (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. 1349 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 1306 (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. 1349 (English).