Shoemaker Automobile Company

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Shoemaker Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1906
resolution 1908
Seat Freeport , Illinois , USA
management Charles Clinton Shoemaker
Branch Automobiles

Shoemaker Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles Clinton Shoemaker founded the company in late 1906. The seat was in Freeport , Illinois . In the same year the production of automobiles began. His son Harry C. helped with this. The brand name was Shoemaker . 25 vehicles were built by October 1907.

Then a new plant for vehicle production was moved into Elkhart , Indiana . Harry Shoemaker ran it while Charles Shoemaker continued to work in Freeport making other things. Financial problems were announced just a month later. As a result, only existing parts were assembled into finished vehicles. Production ended in early 1908.

The St. Joe Motor Car Company was the successor.

vehicles

In 1907 there was only the Model 6 . It had a four-cylinder engine with 109.5375 mm bore , 139.7 mm stroke and 5266 cm³ displacement . It was specified with 30/35 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 259 cm . The structure was an open touring car with five seats.

Two other models followed in 1908. The Model B had the same engine, but which was now given as 28 hp. In addition, there was the Model C . Its four-cylinder engine with the dimensions 114.3 mm bore and 133.35 mm stroke had 5473 cm³ displacement and 40 hp. The wheelbase and structure of both models corresponded to the previous year's model.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1907 Model 6 4th 30/35 259 5-seater touring car
1908 Model B 4th 28 259 5-seater touring car
1908 Model C 4th 40 259 5-seater touring car

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. 1346-1347 (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. 1446 (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. 1346-1347 (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. 1446 (English).