Sellers Motor Car Company

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Sellers Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1909
resolution 1912
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat Hutchinson , Kansas , USA
Branch Automobiles

Sellers Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in February 1909 in Hutchinson , Kansas . The predecessor company is the St. Joe Motor Car Company from Elkhart , Indiana , which in turn followed the Shoemaker Automobile Company from Freeport , Illinois . OG Sellers and Harry Shoemaker were involved in all three companies. Shoemaker was the designer and also responsible for the plant as superintendent. At the end of May 1909, the prototypes were ready. Series production of automobiles began in July 1909. The brand name was Sellers .

In the same year, two vehicles took part in the Kansas-Colorado Endurance Run , a long-distance drive from Kansas to Colorado . One vehicle achieved a perfect result, the other reached the highest speed.

Around three vehicles were built per week. The number was too few to cover the cost.

In June 1912 the company was taken over by the Central States Engineering Company , which manufactured couplings . Guy C. Rexroad bought the plant, including some finished vehicles that he sold. He also took over some parts from which he assembled other vehicles. After the sale, he limited himself to repairing the vehicles.

vehicles

The only model had a four-cylinder engine . 114.3 mm bore and 146.05 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 5994 cm³ . The engine developed 35 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a four-speed gearbox and a cardan shaft . The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm . The only superstructure offered was an open touring car with space for five people. The original price was 1700 US dollars .

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. 1338 (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. 1434 (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. 1338 (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. 1434 (English).