Southern Automobile Manufacturing Company (Florida)

Southern Automobile Manufacturing Company
legal form	Company
founding	1906
resolution	1908
Seat	Jacksonville , Florida , USA
Branch	Automobiles

Southern Automobile Manufacturing Company was a US-American manufacturer of automobiles from Florida .

Company history

John B. McDonald, Hugh Partridge and HC Stone founded the company in April 1906. The company was based in Jacksonville . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Southern . Production ended in 1908. A source says it was the first Florida automaker.

There was no connection to the Southern Automobile Manufacturing Company of the same name from Tennessee .

vehicles

Highwheelers were on offer . They had a two-cylinder engine that was mounted under the seat and powered the rear axle. To select a 12- stood hp engine with air cooling and a 20-horsepower engine with water cooling . The original price was a function of the motor 500 US dollars or US dollars 650th

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).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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).
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).