Standard Motor Vehicle Company (California)

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Standard Motor Vehicle Company
legal form Company
founding 1901
resolution 1902
Seat Oakland , California , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

Standard Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles from California .

Company history

Henry C. Barrow, AE Brooke-Ridley, Henry A. Brown, Solomon D. Rogers and Wilson H. Sigourney founded the company in early 1901. The seat was in Oakland . Brown was a design engineer and had the post of superintendent. The Berkeley Gazette reported on the company as early as February 1901. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Standard . Production ended in 1902.

vehicles

Many of the vehicles were conversions from carriages to motor vehicles. This wasn't uncommon at the turn of the century. Various engines were available for this purpose. A particularly small engine weighed 41 kg and a particularly heavy engine 680 kg. Narrated are passenger cars and commercial vehicles .

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 (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 (English).