States Cyclecar Company

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States Cyclecar Company
legal form Company
founding 1914
resolution 1915
Seat Detroit , Michigan , USA
Branch Automobiles

States Cyclecar Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Samuel E. Jones, George W. Meredith and Victor W. Valade founded the company in July 1914. The company was based in Detroit , Michigan . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was States . In January 1915, vehicles were presented at the Detroit Automobile Show . Production ended in 1915.

There was no association with the States Motor Car Manufacturing Company , which used the same brand name from 1916.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It was called a cyclecar . However, the engine displacement was too large for this classification. It was a four-cylinder engine with 60.325 mm bore , 101.6 mm stroke and 1162 cm³ displacement. The engine output was specified as 10/15 hp . The chassis had a 229 cm wheelbase . The structure was an open roadster with two seats next to each other. The original price was 365 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. 1385 (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. 1506 (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. 1385 (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. 1506 (English).