South Bend Motor Car Works

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South Bend Motor Car Works
legal form
founding 1912
resolution 1916
Seat South Bend , Indiana , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

South Bend Motor Car Works was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

John DJ Fameman, Hilton Hammond and Alfred G. Mechlenburg founded the company in 1912. The seat was in South Bend , Indiana . They manufactured commercial vehicles until 1916 . In addition, some passenger cars were built between 1913 and 1914 . The brand name was South Bend .

vehicles

The commercial vehicles were trucks and fire engines .

The cars had a six-cylinder engine . 101.6 mm bore and 127 mm stroke resulted in 6178 cc displacement . The engine was specified with 38 hp . It drove the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The chassis had a wheelbase of either 325 cm or 345 cm . Are Narrated Roadster and open touring car . The new prices were between 2250 and 2450 US dollars .

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. 1478 (English).

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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. 1361 (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. 1478 (English).