Sharp Arrow Automobile Company

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Sharp Arrow Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1910
Reason for dissolution Death of the owner
Seat Trenton , New Jersey , USA
management William H. Sharp
Branch Automobiles

Sharp Arrow Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

William H. Sharp designed a racing car in 1908 . In December 1908 he founded the company in Trenton , New Jersey . His brother Fred, FW Bennett, JR Farlee and AN Yetter were his partners. In the same year the production of automobiles began in a plant of the Walter Automobile Company . The brand name was Sharp Arrow . In January 1910 it was announced that the International Boiler Company would participate and increase production at its own plant in Stroudsburg , Pennsylvania . As far as is known, this did not happen.

In November 1910, Sharp died in a racing accident. Production ended with that. A total of around 25 vehicles were built.

vehicles

All cars had a four-cylinder engine . Each 127 mm bore and stroke resulted in 6435 cm³ displacement . The engine output was specified as 40 hp .

From 1908 to 1909 there was a shorter and a longer model. The shorter one had a 269 ​​cm wheelbase chassis . Superstructures were a speedabout with two seats and a runabout with three seats. The longer chassis had a 295 cm wheelbase. It was available as a four-seat toy tonneau and a five-seat touring car .

In 1910 the only change was that the wheelbase of the longer model was extended by 10 cm to 305 cm.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1908-1909 40 HP 4th 40 269 Speedabout 2-seater, Runabout 3-seater
1908-1909 40 HP 4th 40 295 Toy Tonneau 4-seater, touring car 5-seater
1910 40 HP 4th 40 269 Speedabout 2-seater, Runabout 3-seater
1910 40 HP 4th 40 305 Toy Tonneau 4-seater, touring car 5-seater

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. 1343-1344 (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. 1440-1441 (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. 1343-1344 (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. 1440-1441 (English).