St. Joe Motor Car Company

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St. Joe Motor Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1908
Seat Elkhart , Indiana , USA
Branch Automobiles

St. Joe Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in the spring of 1908 as the successor company to the Shoemaker Automobile Company . The seat was in Elkhart , Indiana . Harry C. Shoemaker was involved. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was St. Joe . Production ended in 1908.

Businessmen from Hutchinson took over the company and founded the Sellers Motor Car Company in Hutchinson as the successor company.

vehicles

Like the Shoemaker models, the vehicles had four-cylinder engines .

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. 1319 (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. 1446 (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. 1319 (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. 1446 (English).