Spencer (automobile manufacturer)

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Spencer
legal form
founding 1899
resolution 1902
Seat Hartford , Connecticut , USA
management Christopher Miner Spencer
Branch Motor vehicles

Spencer was an American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Christopher Miner Spencer had already made a car for his own use in Hartford , Connecticut , in 1862 . He then successfully produced weapons and founded the Spencer Arms Company in 1883 . He then made screws with his Spencer Automatic Screw Machine Company in Hartford . His second vehicle was built in 1899. Between 1901 and 1902 he manufactured nine other automobiles, which he also sold. The brand name was Spencer . Of these nine vehicles, two were built in Hartford and seven in Windsor , also in Connecticut. It remains unclear why it was produced in two different places, and whether it happened simultaneously and one after the other.

There was no association with the Research Engineering Company of Dayton , Ohio , which used the same brand name for their passenger vehicles between 1921 and 1922 .

vehicles

Spencer only made steam cars. The one from 1862 he used himself for the way to and from work. One day the city told him not to do this because his vehicle would frighten horses.

The vehicle from 1899 also remained a prototype .

The vehicles from 1901 to 1902 had a steam engine with four cylinders . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a chain. A differential gear is specifically mentioned. The Macy’s department store ordered a delivery van that could travel from Hartford to New York City on its own.

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. 1366-1367 (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. 1483 (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. 1366-1367 (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. 1483 (English).