Saginaw Motor Car Company

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Saginaw Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1916
resolution 1918
Seat Saginaw , Michigan , USA
management Louis J. Lampke
Branch Automobiles

Saginaw Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Louis J. Lampke had previous automotive experience with the Palmer & Singer Manufacturing Company , the Lion Motor Car Company , and the Mount Pleasant Motor Company . In June 1916, he founded the company in Saginaw , Michigan . JA Cimmerer, JW Grant, HE Oppenheimer and WC Wiechmann were involved. In July 1916, automobile production began in the former Argo Electric Vehicle Company plant. The initially planned brand name Saginaw was discarded because the Lehr Motor Company was already using it for their vehicles. It was then Yale selected. Production ended in March 1918.

There was no association with the Kirk Manufacturing Company , which had used the same brand name a few years earlier.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a V8 engine . It was rated at 31 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 320 cm . In the first year there were only open touring cars with seven seats.

From 1917 a roadster with two seats and a speedster with three seats supplemented the available body options. Closed superstructures were announced, but were probably no longer manufactured.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1916 Eight 8th 31 320 7-seater touring car
1917-1918 Eight 8th 31 320 7-seater touring car, 2-seater roadster, 3-seater Speedster

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. 1576-1577 (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. 1773 (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. 1576-1577 (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. 1773 (English).