Scott Automobile Company

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Scott & Cooper Manufacturing Company
Scott Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1901
Reason for dissolution liquidation
Seat St. Louis , Missouri , USA
management
  • Ashley Scott
  • Semple Scott
  • Charles Drummond
Branch Automobiles

Scott Automobile Company , previously Scott & Cooper Manufacturing Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The brothers Ashley and Semple Scott from St. Louis , Missouri , had already built a bus in 1898 and a passenger car with an electric motor in 1899 . Financial reasons initially prevented the establishment of a company and the start of series production.

In September 1900, Ashley Scott founded the Scott & Cooper Manufacturing Company with funder Todd K. Cooper . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Scott .

Later in 1900, Semple Scott founded the Scott Automobile Company . His partner was Charles Drummond, who was clearly financially better off than Cooper. A little later, the Scott Automobile Company took over the other company. Cooper dropped out.

In 1901 the electrical division of AL Dyke Automobile Supply Company was taken over from the same town.

The company was dissolved towards the end of the same year.

Other American manufacturers of Scott passenger cars were Scott Iron Works , JA Scott Motor Works and Scott .

vehicles

The omnibus from 1898 had space for eight people. The car from 1899 was a runabout .

The first company offered three models of electric cars . Two different stanhopes and a delivery van have survived .

The second company also made electric cars.

After the takeover of Dyke's company, their electric models continued to be produced.

In addition, a steam car was created as a prototype .

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. 1331 (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. 1425 (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. 1331 (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. 1425 (English).