Star Motor Car Company

Star Motor Car Company
legal form	Company
founding	1909
resolution	1911
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
management	Guy G. Shaw
Branch	Automobiles

Star Motor Car Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Guy G. Shaw, JW Berauer, SJ Summer and WA Rowland founded the company in November 1909. The company was based in Indianapolis , Indiana . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Star . In November 1911, at the request of the shareholder Theodore M. Weiss, the bankruptcy followed . In total, only a few vehicles were built.

The company is considered the eleventh automobile manufacturer to be founded in this city. This information is controversial. The following is a list of automobile manufacturers who were founded in Indianapolis up to 1909 and who actually manufactured motor vehicles. It does not include the Overland brand , which was based in Indianapolis from 1905 to 1909, but was previously founded in Terre Haute .

• 1896–1900 Indianapolis Automobile and Vehicle Company , branded Black
• 1898–1916 Indiana Bicycle Company with the Waverley brand
• 1900–1924 National Motor Vehicle Company with the National brand
• 1902–1903 TJ Lindsay Automobile Parts Company with the Lindsay brand
• 1902-1933 Marmon
• 1903–1905 Mohawk Cycle & Automobile Company with the Mohawk brand
• 1903–1926 Premier Motors with the Premier brand
• 1904-1906 H. Pokorney & Richards Automobile & Gas Engine Company under the Tricolet trademark
• 1904–1915 Marion Motor Car Company with the Marion brand
• 1906–1914 American Motors Company with American brand
• 1909 Whiteside Wheel Company with Vaughn brand
• 1909–1919 Empire Automobile Company with Empire brand
• 1909-1925 Cole Motor Car Company under the Cole brand

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

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. The structure was an open touring car . It offered space for five people. The original price was 1,000 US dollars .

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).

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. 1383 (English).
2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 271 (English).