Rotary Motor Vehicle Company

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Rotary Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1905
Seat Boston , Massachusetts , USA
Branch Automobiles

Rotary Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

ER Porter, NSH Sanders and WR Whiting founded the company in December 1899. It was part of the engine manufacturer American Rotary Engine Company . The seat was in Boston , Massachusetts . Automobile production did not begin until 1903. The brand name was Rotary . Production ended in 1905.

There was no association with the Bournonville Motors Company , which used the same brand name a few years later.

vehicles

In contrast to the company name and brand name, the vehicles did not have a real rotary engine . It was a single cylinder engine with two connecting rods and two crankshafts rotating in opposite directions. It made 8 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . There was a choice of a two-seat runabout with wire - spoke wheels for $ 1,250 and a four-seat tonneau with wooden rims for $ 1,500.

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. 1310 (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. 1370 (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. 1310 (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. 1370 (English).