Rollin Motors Company

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Rollin Motors Company
legal form Company
founding 1923
resolution 1925
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management James G. Heaslet
Branch Automobiles

Rollin from 1924
dashboard
engine

Rollin Motors Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . Another source states Rollin Motor Company .

Company history

Rollin Henry White was chief engineer with the White Motor Company for many years until 1914 . In 1916 he founded the Cleveland Tractor Company to manufacture tractors .

In the 1920s he had plans to get into automobile production. In the spring of 1922 he teamed up with the industrialist EE Allyne and the engineer Fred M. Zeder of the Studebaker Corporation . His tractor plant was to be merged into a new company that manufactured passenger cars and tractors. The plan failed.

In May 1923 he founded the company in Cleveland , Ohio . Former Studebaker employees supported him in this. He became Chairman of the Board of Directors and James G. Heaslet became President. At the end of 1923, the production of automobiles of the 1924 model year began. The brand name was Rollin . Production ended in November 1925. Bankruptcy followed in December 1925 .

A total of 5750 vehicles were built, spread over 3662 cars in the first model year and 2088 cars in the last.

vehicles

Rollin produced small cars , at least in the opinion of American interested parties . They were of high quality and still reasonably priced. However, the trend in the USA was towards larger vehicles. One source gives this as the reason for the failure.

Only Model G was on offer . It had a four-cylinder engine that made 41 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm . The four-wheel brakes were a specialty.

For 1924 are ordinary touring cars and touring cars in luxury version with five seats, a coupé - roadster with three seats and a sedan with five seats survived.

In 1925, a Phaeton with five seats and a Brougham with five seats replaced the touring cars. Coupé roadster and sedan were retained.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1924 Model G 4th 41 284 5-seater touring car, 5-seater luxury touring car, 3-seater coupé-roadster, 5-seater sedan
1925 Model G 4th 41 284 Phaeton 5-seater, Coupé-Roadster 3-seater, Sedan 5-seater, Brougham 5-seater

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. 1307 (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. 1352 (English).

Web links

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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. 1307 (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. 1352 (English).