Rowe Motor Manufacturing Company

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Rowe Motor Company
Rowe Motor Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1925
Seat Lancaster , Pennsylvania , USA
management Samuel D. Rowe
Branch Automobiles , engines

Rowe Motor Manufacturing Company , previously Rowe Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles and engines .

Company history

Samuel D. Rowe founded the Rowe Motor Company in Waynesboro in 1908 . In the same year he manufactured a passenger car . A market launch did not succeed. Rowe then limited himself to the production of engines. In 1910 the second attempt by a car followed, which again failed. In 1911, Rowe moved to Coatesville and started producing commercial vehicles . The brand name was Rowe . In 1912 the name was changed to Rowe Motor Manufacturing Company . The company was based in Downingtown from 1914 and Lancaster from 1918 . All of these locations are in Pennsylvania .

Production ended in 1925.

vehicles

The car prototype from 1908 had a five-cylinder engine . It was air-cooled . No data are available for the vehicle from 1910.

The trucks were available with four , five, six and eight-cylinder engines. In the eight-cylinder engine, the individual cylinders were arranged in a V shape .

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. 1311 (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. 1311 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 248 (English).
  3. ^ Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 143.