Springfield Cornice Works

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Springfield Cornice Works
legal form
founding 1896 or earlier
resolution 1901
Reason for dissolution reorganization
Seat Springfield , Massachusetts , USA
management Hinsdale Smith
Branch Automobiles

Springfield Cornice Works was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Hinsdale Smith ran the company, based in Springfield , Massachusetts . In 1896 he started producing individual automobiles. The brand name was initially Smith , unofficially also Smith Spring Motor .

Series production did not begin until 1900. Now the vehicles were called Meteor . The Howell & Meehan Company of Boston , Massachusetts sold these vehicles as Sterling in 1901 .

In 1901 a reorganization led to the Automotor Company .

vehicles

Brand name Smith

The prototype from 1896 had a purchased gasoline engine from American and a self-made gearbox. The New Haven Carriage Company made the body.

A few more vehicles followed until 1899.

Brand name Meteor

The only model offered was a two-seat runabout . The single-cylinder engine installed in the front came from De Dion-Bouton or Aster . It delivered 3 to 4 bhp (2.2 to 2.9 kW). It drove the rear axle with a long chain without an interposed gearbox. The price of the very basic automobile ranged from $ 800 to $ 850 . In November 1900, the car was shown in Madison Square Garden in New York City .

Brand name Sterling

The vehicles corresponded to the meteor.

Overview of car brands from the US, the Sterling include

brand Manufacturer Marketing start End of marketing Location, state
Ams sterling Amston Motor Car Company 1917 1918 Bridgeport, Connecticut
sterling Sterling Automobile & Engine Company 1901 1902 Sterling, Illinois
sterling Springfield Cornice Works 1901 1901 Springfield, Massachusetts
sterling Sterling Machine Works 1909 1909 Sterling, Illinois
sterling Elkhart Motor Car Company 1909 1911 Elkhart, Indiana
sterling Sterling Motor Car Company 1915 1916 Brockton, Massachusetts
sterling Consolidated Motor Car Company (Connecticut) 1920 1920 Middlefield, Connecticut
Sterling Knight Sterling Knight Company 1920 1926 Warren, Ohio
Sterling New York Sterling Automobile Manufacturing Company 1915 1916 New York City, New York

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. 964 and p. 1357 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1017 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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. 1357 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 964 (English).
  3. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1017 (English).
  4. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 272 (English).
  5. ↑ 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. 1396 (English).