Southern Automobile Manufacturing Company (Tennessee)

Southern Automobile Manufacturing Company
legal form	Company
founding	1920
resolution	1920
Seat	Memphis , Tennessee , USA
Branch	Automobiles

Southern Automobile Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles from Tennessee .

Company history

WN Frazee, WA King, LP Miller and WA Schibley founded the company in 1920. The seat was in Memphis . The designer was WF Drake. In the same year the production of passenger cars began . The brand name was Southern Six . In addition, were commercial vehicles and tractors planned. Production ended in 1920. Altogether two vehicles were probably built.

Drake later founded the Drake Motor & Tire Manufacturing Company .

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

vehicles

The vehicles had a six-cylinder engine from the Continental Motors Company . It made 57 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 323 cm . The price list included a five-seat open top touring car for $ 2,395 .

One vehicle was badly damaged when police officers and bandits engaged in a shootout in a car repair shop. One vehicle was in use for a few years.

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. 1478-1479 (English).

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. 1478-1479 (English).