Star Automobile Company (Illinois)

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Star Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1908
Seat Chicago , Illinois , USA
Branch Automobiles

Star Automobile Company was a American manufacturer of automobiles from Illinois .

Company history

The company was founded in Chicago in January 1907 . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Star . There were plans for a plant in Marion , Indiana , but they were never implemented. Production ended in 1908.

Other manufacturers of passenger cars of the Star brand from the USA were Star Automobile Company (Ohio) , Model Gas Engine Works , Star Motor Car Company and Star (automobile brand) .

vehicles

There was only one basic model on offer. It had a single cylinder - two-stroke engine . The engine output of 10 hp was transmitted to the rear axle via a friction gear . The structure was an open runabout with two seats. Three models have come down to us for $ 500, $ 600 and $ 700 . It remains unclear how they differed. One possibility would be the equipment, another the wheelbase .

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. 1383 (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. 1504 (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. 1383 (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. 1504 (English).