Singer Motor Company

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Singer Motor Company
legal form Inc.
founding 1914
resolution 1920
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Mount Vernon , New York , USA
management Charles A. Singer
Branch Automobiles

Singer Motor Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles A. Singer ran the Palmer & Singer Manufacturing Company until 1914 . He founded the new company in 1914. The seat was in New York City . One plant was in Manhattan . The former factory of the American Locomotive Company in Long Island City in Queens served as the second plant . The first vehicle was ready in mid-June 1914. The vehicles were delivered from July 15, 1914. The brand name was Singer . Around 200 vehicles were built each year.

In 1919 the seat was moved to Mount Vernon in the US state of New York . A new plant was moved into there. The bankruptcy began in October 1920 . In November 1920, the company was bankrupt . Individual vehicles from 1920 were still sold in 1921.

According to another source, a total of around 500 to 550 vehicles should have been built.

A vehicle from 1915 still exists.

vehicles

The first model was the 50 HP . He had a six-cylinder engine of Herschell-Spillman . 101.6 mm bore and 139.7 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 6795 cm³ . The engine output was specified with 50 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 351 cm . From 1914 to 1915 there were only open touring cars with five seats. In 1916, four and seven-seater touring cars, two- and three-seater runabouts , seven-seater sedans and seven-seater landaulets were available. From 1917 to 1919 touring cars with four and seven seats, roadsters with two seats, runabouts with four seats, sedans with five and seven seats, landaulets with seven seats and broughams with six seats were available. In 1920 the runabout and landaulet were eliminated, while the smaller limousine now offered space for six people.

In 1920 the 90 HP supplemented the range. It had a V12 engine from the Weidely Motors Company . It was specified with 90 hp. The wheelbase corresponded to the other model. Listed were roadsters with two seats, touring cars with four and seven seats, Victoria with seven seats, sedan with seven seats and Brougham with five seats.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1914-1915 50 HP 6th 50 351 5-seater touring car
1916 50 HP 6th 50 351 4-seater and 7-seater touring cars, 2-seater and 3-seater runabouts, 7-seater sedan, 7-seater landaulet
1917-1919 50 HP 6th 50 351 Touring car 4-seat and 7-seat, roadster 2-seat, runabout 4-seat, sedan 5-seat and 7-seat, landaulet 7-seat, Brougham 6-seat
1920 50 HP 6th 50 351 Roadster 2-seat, touring car 4-seat and 7-seat, sedan 6-seat and 7-seat, Brougham 6-seat
1920 90 HP 12 90 351 Roadster 2-seat, touring car 4-seat and 7-seat, Victoria 7-seat, Limousine 7-seat, Brougham 5-seat

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. 1353 (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. 1463-1464 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 1353 (English).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 1463-1464 (English).
  3. ↑ Automobile Quarterly Volume 49, Issue 2.