Standard Motor Construction Company

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Standard Motor Construction Company
legal form Company
founding 1904
resolution 1905
Seat Jersey City , New Jersey , USA
Branch Automobiles

Standard Motor Construction Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1904 in Jersey City , New Jersey . The production of automobiles began at the plant of the dissolved US Long Distance Automobile Company . The brand name was officially Standard , unofficially in the first year also Standard Tourist US Long Distance . The company acquired a license for the Selden patent and therefore had no legal problems with George Baldwin Selden to expect.

Production ended in the summer of 1905. The company was dissolved. Edward Ringwood Hewitt acquired the Selden license and used it from 1906 in his Hewitt Motor Company .

vehicles

Unlike the US Long Distance cars, which had small one- , two-, and three-cylinder engines , the standard cars had four-cylinder engines . They made 25 hp . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a three-speed gearbox and a chain.

In 1904 there was the tourist . It had a chassis with a 241 cm wheelbase . The structure was an open touring car . It offered space for five people. The original price was 3,000 US dollars .

The 25 HP followed in 1905 . The wheelbase has been extended to 277 cm. The touring car now cost $ 3,500. There was also a landaulet for $ 3900.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1904 tourist 4th 25th 241 Touring car
1905 25 HP 4th 25th 277 Touring car, landaulet

An overview of US car brands that begin with Standard

brand Manufacturer Marketing start End of marketing Location, state
default Boston Automobile Company 1900 1900 Bar Harbor, Maine
default Standard Motor Vehicle Company (New Jersey) 1900 1901 Camden, New Jersey
default Standard Motor Vehicle Company (California) 1901 1902 Oakland, California
default Standard Motor Construction Company 1904 1905 Jersey City, New Jersey
default St. Louis Car Company 1910 1911 St. Louis, Missouri
default Standard Car Manufacturing Company 1911 1915 Jackson, Michigan
default Standard Engineering Company 1914 1914 Chicago, Illinois
default Standard Steel Car Company 1914 1923 Butler, Pennsylvania
Standard GE Standard Gas Electric Power Company 1909 1910 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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. 1374-1375 (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. 1499 (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. 1374-1375 (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. 1499 (English).