Roper (vehicle manufacturer)

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Roper
legal form
founding 1859
resolution 1896
Reason for dissolution Death of the owner
Seat Roxbury , Massachusetts , USA
management Sylvester H. Roper
Branch vehicles

Roper was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Sylvester H. Roper lived in Roxbury , Massachusetts . He started experimenting with steam engines and steam engines in 1859 . Scientific American first reported a Roper motor vehicle in 1863 . The brand name was Roper . Other vehicles followed, some of which were also sold. There were both passenger cars and motorcycles . Roper died in 1896. Production ended with that. A total of ten vehicles were built.

vehicles

All vehicles were steam cars . The vehicle from 1863 had four wheels. The open structure offered space for two people. The engine developed 2  hp . This allowed a top speed of 40 km / h. A four-wheeled vehicle was sold to WW Austen. He has featured the vehicle on many occasions on the east coast of the United States . The last four-wheeled vehicle was sold to a Boston entrepreneur in 1894 . Many of the remaining vehicles were motorcycles.

One car has been preserved. It is on display in the Henry Ford Museum . The year of construction is given as 1865. It has an engine with two cylinders . The bore is 95.25 mm and the stroke is 254 mm. The chassis has a 138 cm wheelbase . The vehicle is 254 cm long, 160 cm wide and 147 cm high. The curb weight was about 313 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. 1309 (English).

Web links

Commons : Roper  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 1309 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 247 (English).
  3. ↑ 1865 Roper Steam Carriage (English, accessed January 26, 2019)