Service Motors

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Service Motor Car Company
Service Motors Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1911
resolution 1926
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat Wabash , Indiana , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

ambulance
ambulance

Service Motors Inc. , previously the Service Motor Car Company , was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The Service Motor Car Company was founded in 1911. The headquarters were initially in Chicago and the plant in Kankakee , both in Illinois . In the same year the production of commercial vehicles and passenger cars began . The brand name was Service . Car production was stopped again in 1911.

In 1912 the company moved to Wabash , Indiana . In 1923, according to a source, the name was changed to Service Motors Inc.

Relay Motors Corporation took over the company in 1926 and continued production at its Lima , Ohio facility until 1932, keeping the brand name.

vehicles

The car had a four-cylinder engine . It drove the rear axle via a friction gear and two chains. The chassis had a wheelbase of 249 cm. The setup was a runabout with two seats.

Most of the early trucks were delivered to the United States Army . They were the Liberty Truck type . They were given as 1 to 5 tons. They had Buda four-cylinder engines .

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. 1340 (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. 1437 (English).

Web links

Commons : Service Motors  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 156.
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 1340 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 1437 (English).