Sparks Automobile Company

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Sparks Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1899
resolution 1903
Seat San Francisco , California , USA
Branch Automobiles

Sparks Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

WJ Barnett, John Curtin, S. Goodenough, TJ Sparks and Charles H. Taylor founded the company in the fall of 1899. The company was based in San Francisco , California . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Sparks . Production ended in 1903 when the company was dissolved.

There was no association with CF Sparks Machine Company , which in 1903 used the same brand name for its passenger cars.

vehicles

The vehicles had a two-cylinder engine . He made 4 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via belts. The smallest vehicle cost 700 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. 1362 (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. 1362 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 267 (English).