Standard Steel Car Company

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Standard Steel Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1934
Seat Butler , Pennsylvania , USA
Branch Railroad cars , automobiles

Rail vehicle, recorded in 1967
Rail vehicle, recorded in 1968
Rail vehicle, recorded in 1968
Standard Steel car

Standard Steel Car Company was an American manufacturer of railroad cars and automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Butler , Pennsylvania in 1902 . Mainly it made railroad cars.

In the summer of 1913 a new plant for the production of automobiles was announced. The first prototypes were made in 1914 . Series production began in 1915. The brand name was Standard . In January 1921, bankers from New York joined the company. Among them was Don C. McCurd, who previously worked for American Mercedes , Flanders and Willys . He carried out a reorganization of the automotive department, which led to the name Standard Motor Car Company . In 1923 Standard Steel withdrew from the automotive industry. McCurd manufactured automobiles until the end of 1923. A total of over 14,000 vehicles were built . The American Austin Car Company later operated in the plant .

In 1934 the company merged with the Pullman Palace Car Company .

Motor vehicles

In 1914 there was only the Six . It had a six-cylinder engine that was specified with 38 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 320 cm . The only structure was an open touring car .

From 1915 to 1916, the Six was available as a five-seat touring car, three-seat runabout and seven-seat sedan . Then there was the eight . It had a V8 engine that was specified with 29 hp. The wheelbase was 307 cm. There was a choice of a seven-seater touring car and a three-seater roadster .

In 1917 the range consisted of two different eight-cylinder models. The Model E had an engine with 29.3 hp, a wheelbase of 307 cm and bodies as a five-seat touring car and four-seat roadster. The Model F was a little more motorized and longer. The engine was specified with 33.8 hp. The wheelbase measured 323 cm. It was available as a two-seater roadster as well as a touring car, limousine and open sedan , each with seven seats.

The smaller model was discontinued in 1918. The larger has now Model G called. There are touring cars and sedans with seven seats, roadsters with two and four seats and a coupé with three seats.

In 1919, the only change was that the coupe now offered space for four people.

Model I followed in 1920 . The engine developed 70 hp. The wheelbase and superstructures did not change.

In 1921 the four-seater roadster became a four-seater Speedster .

From 1922 to 1923 the vehicle was called Model II . On offer were touring cars, sedans and vestibules sedans with seven seats, sport , coupé and sedanettes with four seats and a roadster with two seats.

In 1923 a model with a four-cylinder engine was announced, but it no longer appeared on the market.

Model overview

year model cylinder Power ( hp ) Wheelbase (cm) construction
1914 Six 6th 38 320 Touring car
1915-1916 Six 6th 38 320 5-seater touring car, 3-seater runabout, 7-seater limousine
1915-1916 Eight 8th 29 307 7-seater touring car, 3-seater roadster
1917 Model E. 8th 29.3 307 5-seater touring car, 4-seater roadster
1917 Model F 8th 33.8 323 7-seater touring car, 7-seater open sedan, 7-seater sedan, 2-seater roadster
1918 Model G 8th 33.8 323 7-seater touring car, 7-seater sedan, 2-seater and 4-seater roadster, 3-seater coupé
1919 Model G 8th 33.8 323 7-seater touring car, 2-seater and 4-seater roadster, 4-seater coupé, 7-seater sedan
1920 Model I. 8th 70 323 Roadster 2-seater and 4-seater, touring car 7-seater, sedan 7-seater, coupé 4-seater
1921 Model I. 8th 70 323 Roadster 2-seater, Speedster 4-seater, touring car 7-seater, sedan 7-seater, Coupé 4-seater
1922-1923 Model II 8th 70 323 7-seater touring car, 4-seater sports, 2-seater roadster, 4-seater coupé, 4-seater sedan, 7-seater sedan, 7-seater vestibule sedan

Production numbers

year Production number
1915 1,133
1916 1,536
1917 2,318
1918 2.123
1919 1,115
1920 2.128
1921 2.210
1922 1,216
1923 483
total 14,262

Source:

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. 1375-1376 (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. ↑ a b 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. 1375-1376 (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).