Single Center Spring Company

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Single Center Spring Company
legal form Company
founding 1886
resolution 1908
Seat Evansville , Indiana , USA
management Willis Copeland
Branch vehicles

Single Center Spring Company was an American manufacturer of vehicles . There is also the name Single Center Buggy Company .

Company history

Willis Copeland founded the company in Evansville , Indiana in 1886 . Thomas B. Jones and JO St. John were his partners. First they made springs, then also gears. Carriages were also made. Around the turn of the century, some automobiles were made to customer orders for which no brand name has been passed down. Jones and John were against it and left the company. In 1903, vehicles were produced based on a design by Schuyler W. Zent, ​​which were marketed as Zentmobile . From 1906 vehicles were produced for the Windsor Automobile Company .

In 1906, WO Worth became the new partner running the Worth Motor Car Manufacturing Company . In that year the production of automobiles began, which were marketed as single centers . Production ended in 1908.

In 1908, Copeland founded the Evansville Automobile Company .

Zentmobile vehicles

Schuyler W. Zent was already active as Zent from 1900 to 1902 . In 1902 he designed another vehicle, but found no plant to produce it. So he turned to Copeland.

The only model had a single cylinder engine with water cooling . It made 8 hp and drove the rear axle via a planetary gear . The structure is described as a buggy with two seats. One illustration shows a tonneau . Was steered with a steering wheel .

In 1904, Zent founded the Zent Automobile Manufacturing Company .

Single Center vehicles

Worth was the designer of the vehicles. They were slightly larger than the company's previous vehicles. There were two models to choose from. What they had in common was a two-cylinder engine , chain drive and solid rubber tires . One illustration shows a highwheeler with large wheels.

The 12 HP had an engine with 12 HP power. The chassis had a wheelbase of 213 cm . The structure was an open car buggy.

There was also the 15/17 HP . Its engine power was given as 15/17 hp. The wheelbase was 218 cm. The vehicle was bodied as a roadster .

Another source gives a uniform 127 mm bore , 101.6 mm stroke , 2574 cm³ displacement and 12 HP power for all engines .

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1906-1908 12 HP 2 12 213 Car buggy
1906-1908 15/17 HP 2 15/17 218 Roadster

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 and p. 1584 (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. 1464 and p. 1784 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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 c 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. 1464 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 1584 (English).
  4. ↑ 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. 1784 (English).