Sperry Engineering Company

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Sperry Engineering Company
legal form Company
founding 1898
resolution 1901
Seat Cleveland , Ohio , USA
management Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Branch Automobiles

Cleveland, Sperry system from 1899 in an Italian museum
Cleveland, Sperry System from 1900 on the eve of the 2011 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run
Sperry from 1901 in an English museum

Sperry Engineering Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Elmer Ambrose Sperry founded the company in Cleveland , Ohio in 1898 . He designed an electric car that was ready in October 1898. The Cleveland Machine Screw Company from the same town took over the production for him. The brand name was initially Cleveland or in long form Cleveland, Sperry System and from 1900 Sperry . Production ended in 1901. Over 100 vehicles were exported to France alone .

vehicles

Only electric cars were on offer. It was driven by an electric motor with 3.5 hp . A top speed of 29 km / h was specified. Open and closed bodies for two and four people were available. Unusual was the operation with a single lever, which many competitors of electric cars later took over.

Existing vehicles

A Cleveland from 1899 is in an Italian museum. It bears a badge with the inscription Modèle A No. 20 and Boulevard Haussmann, Paris , so it comes from the series of 100 vehicles that were exported to France.

A 1900 Cleveland was Irish NI 3 and took part in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run several times . The Bonhams auction house auctioned the vehicle on October 31, 2014 for 58,734 euros .

A 1901 Sperry is in the Streetlife Museum of Transport in Kingston upon Hull , England .

Overview of car brands from the US, the Cleveland include

brand Manufacturer Marketing start End of marketing Location, state
Cleveland Sperry Engineering Company 1898 1900 Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland General Automobile & Manufacturing Company 1902 1902 Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Cleveland Automobile Company (from 1902) 1902 1904 Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Cleveland Motor Car Company 1905 1909 New York City, New York
Cleveland Cleveland Electric Vehicle Company 1909 1910 Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Cleveland Cyclecar Company 1914 1914 Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Cleveland Automobile Company (from 1919) 1919 1926 Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland three-wheeler American Bicycle Company 1900 1901 Cleveland, Ohio

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. 343 and pp. 1367-1368 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 315. (English)
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1483. (English)

Web links

Commons : Sperry Engineering Company  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 343 and pp. 1367-1368 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 315 and p. 1483. (English)
  3. ↑ Auction 2014 (accessed November 4, 2017)