Smith (automobile manufacturer)

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Smith
legal form
founding 1916
resolution 1916
Seat San Francisco , California , USA
management Art Smith
Branch Automobiles

Smith was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Art Smith was a car enthusiast and driver . In the 1910s, he made some automobiles in San Francisco , California . The brand name was Smith , with Art Smith on the vehicles occasionally . The racing driver Harry Hartz wrote in Motor Age magazine on May 10, 1917 that Smith had manufactured the vehicles in the previous year, i.e. 1916. Another source gives the year 1911. A total of eight vehicles were built.

vehicles

The vehicles were a mixture of cycle cars and small racing cars . You could get a street legal. According to California registrations, one vehicle was registered on Art Smith and another on Al Maggim.

One source claims they had a Harley-Davidson engine and transmission .

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. 1359 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 1359 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Art Smith - The Life and Times of “The Comet” from August 9, 2018. (English, accessed February 23, 2019)