Royal Motor Company

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Royal Motor Company
legal form Company
founding 1913
resolution 1913
Seat Elkhart , Indiana , USA
Branch Automobiles

Royal Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Elkhart , Indiana in 1913 . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Royal . Production ended in 1913. A source suspects underfunding as the cause of the dissolution.

Other US manufacturers of passenger cars of the brand Royal were Royal Automobile Company and Royal Cyclecar Company .

vehicles

There were two models on offer. Both had a four-cylinder engine with T-head . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a three-speed gearbox and a cardan shaft . The bodies were touring cars with space for five people.

The Model 35 had a 35 hp engine . The original price was 895 US dollars . The 45 had a 45 horsepower engine and cost $ 1,095.

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. 1312 (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. 1383 (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. 1312 (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. 1383 (English).