Summer Motor Car Company

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Summer Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1904
resolution 1905
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
management
  • Herman A. Sommer
  • William J. Summer
Branch Automobiles

Sommer Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles . The name Sommer Motor Company can be found in the literature .

Company history

The brothers Herman A. and William J. Sommer operated the Hammer-Sommer Auto Carriage Company until 1904 . After separating from Henry F. Hammer, they founded their own company in May 1904. The seat was also in Detroit from Michigan . They continued the production of automobiles. The brand name was now summer . Production ended in 1905.

At the Summer Motor Company of Ohio , the two brothers were not involved.

vehicles

One source mentions only the model D . It had a two-cylinder engine . It made 15 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 203 cm . The structure was an open touring car with five seats. The original price was 1,250 US dollars .

In a display that is Model E touted. It had a water-cooled two - cylinder four-stroke engine with 15 hp and a two-speed planetary gear . The wheelbase was 208 cm and the track was 142 cm. The price quoted is $ 1,000.

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. 1361 (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. 1477 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b advertisement of the company (English, accessed on February 23, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b 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. 1361 (English).
  3. ↑ 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. 1477 (English).